Minnesota woman to pay $222,000 for sharing copyrighted music online

[W8 a minute 10+ year member]

It's all BS. Over all this judgment makes the music industry look like thugs.

I remember watching an old interview with Lars Ulrich (the dick who started all this lawsuit crap) in which he bragged about the HUGE bootleg collection he used to have and how he would trade with other bootleg collectors. This was all before the internet.

I can buy used CD's anywhere.

I remember taping songs directly off the radio. Before the internet.

I remember someone buying the new REO "Hi Infidelity" album and taping it for anyone that provided their own tape. Before the internet.

I can still go to my local library and check out any copyrighted book or CD and take it home. FOR FREE.

College servers are LOADED with stolen music that people download 24hrs a day. You don't see the RIAA going after them. Why? Because that's a dog that will fight back hard and can afford to do it.

The music industry has done nothing the last decade but crank out crap. And poorly recorded crap at that. If you get one good song on a CD you're lucky. Sometimes that hit song you heard on the radio isn't the same version thats on the **** CD. This is why more and more people are looking to the indie labels.

CD's are cheaper to produce than ever but the price hasn't gone down. It's not even cheaper to download them legally, which it was supposed to be. They ask the same price to download them as Best Buy charges for the CD. WTF

 

[Kai Winters 10+ year member]

While I certainly agree that $20 for a cd with one or two good/decent songs on it is a freakin' rip off and the music industry is a joke it is illegal to do what this person did.

I do not know if she was just ignorant of the laws...duh what a dumb ***...or just flaunted it but she broke the law and has been called on it.

A big problem she will encounter, aside from her paychecks being garnished, is ownership of anything. Say she buys a house in a decade, it is possible a lien could be placed on it meaning when she tries to sell it any equity could be lost to the plaintiff...that is if they pursue her year after year. This may apply to any savings, 401k, etc. she may accumulate as well.

It could be in her best interest to make a deal with the industry to become some sort of spokesperson for them and work off her debt.

I don't feel bad for her because she broke the law and is paying for it.

I do think the music industry is a joke and should be punished for ripping off all the talent they have screwed over for the past decades.

But the axiom is still true...Thems with the gold makes the rules.