why that was nice

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

MINNEAPOLIS: A Minnesota woman ordered to pay $222,000 in the first music download trial in the United States may get another chance with a jury.
The issue is whether record companies have to prove anyone else actually downloaded their copyrighted songs, or whether it is enough to argue that a defendant made copyrighted music available for copying.

The recording industry has sued thousands of people who shared music online, and has argued that all they have to prove is that the defendant made the music available. They compared it to someone displaying pirated DVDs for sale on a table.

Music-sharers have argued that the only proven downloaders of their music were investigators working for the record companies themselves.

That was the case in the trial last fall of Jammie Thomas of Brainerd. A U.S. district court judge, Michael Davis, instructed jurors that making sound recordings available without permission violates record company copyrights "regardless of whether actual distribution has been shown."

On Thursday, Davis said that may have been a mistake.

He wrote that he found a 1993 ruling from the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Minnesota, that said infringement requires "an actual dissemination of either copies or phonorecords."

Davis wrote that neither side presented that earlier decision to him. He is going to allow both sides to make oral arguments on July 1 in Duluth, where the trial was held.

Record companies have sued at least 26,000 people for distributing music online. Some cases have been dismissed, and many defendants settled for a few thousand dollars. Thomas, who makes $36,000 a year working for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, was the first to take the record companies all the way to a trial.

Jurors ordered her to pay $222,000, which was $9,250 for each of the 24 songs record companies brought up in her trial. The original lawsuit accused her of offering 1,702 songs on the Kazaa file-sharing network.

Thomas has not yet had to pay the verdict while it has been on appeal, her attorney, Brian Toder, said Thursday. Toder had asked for a new trial because he said the $222,000 verdict was unconstitutionally out of proportion to the damages against the record companies.

A record company attorney, Richard Gabriel, did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/15/technology/webmusic.php

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

the funniest part of this whole case is that one of the songs she was found guilty of sharing was gloria estefan "the rythm is gonna get you"..... it got her *** good //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[Jameseypoo 5,000+ posts]

as it should

 

[Tehgregzor 10+ year member]

meh. they weren't making enough money by offering us their shitty albums, so now they're trying to TAKE our money. Bastards.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

meh. they weren't making enough money by offering us their shitty albums, so now they're trying to TAKE our money. Bastards.

where have you been? This has been going on for a long time.

 

[slick rick 10+ year member]

Bad jury instruction FTL...at least they will fix the mistake.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

if you could pick to lose your balls or your *******. which would it be and why?

Remember if you choose your ******* you'd have to wear (and empty) one of those crap bags that hangs off your side... and if you choose your balls you'd probably grow ***** and have a high voice....

 

[cpierce 5,000+ posts]

Balls. Reason: I will have ***** to play with and never have to worry about offspring //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

i'm thinking without the balls releasing hormones you probably wouldn't be interested in your new *****..

i could be wrong tho..

 

[bass-aholic 10+ year member]

POLL

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[maldecido33 10+ year member]

Could you take supplemental hormones?

 

[Liquid Bass 10+ year member]

balls....no preggo *****es

 

[azimuth 5,000+ posts]

balls. i know a guy who was in an accident and had to wear a colostomy bag. pretty crappy.

 

[Frijoles24 10+ year member]

i'm thinking without the balls releasing hormones you probably wouldn't be interested in your new *****..
i could be wrong tho..

haha yea. no testosterone - no ****** urges.

in some cases, that might be nice. but then again... not having that feeling for the ladies... ever. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crying.gif.ec0ebefe590df0251476573bc49e46d8.gif

mmm.. but if u didnt have an *******, and ure ****ing some chick, and u need to shit. wat woudl happen? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif poopy while secks? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crying.gif.ec0ebefe590df0251476573bc49e46d8.gif

=p

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

Could you take supplemental hormones?

thats actually what i was thinking, but didnt want to bring it up to influence the poll.

I'd choose to lose my balls and then get some of these:

http://www.neuticles.com/index1.html

Have them make a sak out of some extra skin from legs and then take hormones..

I wouldn't want to wear a little poo bag...