Minnesota Mom Hit With $1.5 Million Fine for Downloading 24

lukin2006

http://new.ca.music.yahoo.com/blogs/amp ... -24-songs/

Guess she should have shopped at itunes

Sidnum

True. But $1.5 mil is absolutely and ridiculously stupid. Gimme a break people. :roll:

lukin2006

Sidnum wrote:

True. But $1.5 mil is absolutely and ridiculously stupid. Gimme a break people. :roll:

I was being sarcastic and I agree it is ridiculous. but that's the record companies.

gimmesometruth27

yeah let me just pull 1.5 million out of my back pocket...

god knows she does not have that kind of cash. if i got fined that much i would say, "take my house, my 2 cars, my vintage band shit, and everything i have"... it would not be anywhere near 1.5 million bucks...

why are they going after individual people instead of those who posted it or those who had servers that hosted it?

Jason P

I think this is the third trial as well. Does the jury come up with the damages? I think a $1,000 fine should cover everything.

I would consider illegally downloading some songs in protest of this judgement if there was any new music worth illegally downloading.

BinauralJam

$24, that's what she sould pay. I heard she tried to settle with them a couple of times but the music company just kept pushing it to go to trial. There trying to make an example of her, but it's stupid, there never gona see the money and they know it. There's a bigger agenda here.

Godfather.

boycott down loads

Godfather.

Bronx Bombers

The full list of songs Thomas-Rasset is on trial for:

Guns N Roses:"Welcome to the Jungle"; "November Rain"
Vanessa Williams: "Save the Best for Last"
Janet Jackson: "Let's Wait Awhile"
Gloria Estefan: "Here We Are"; "Coming Out of the Heart"; "Rhythm is Gonna Get You"
Goo Goo Dolls: "Iris"
Journey: "Faithfully"; "Don't Stop Believing"
Sara McLachlan: "Possession"; "Building a Mystery"
Aerosmith: "Cryin’"
Linkin Park: "One Step Closer"
Def Leppard: "Pour Some Sugar on Me"
Reba McEntire: "One Honest Heart"
Bryan Adams: "Somebody"
No Doubt: "Bathwater"; "Hella Good"; "Different People"
Sheryl Crow: "Run Baby Run"
Richard Marx: "Now and Forever"
Destiny's Child: "Bills, Bills, Bills"
Green Day: "Basket Case"

Eliot Rosewater

Bronx Bombers wrote:

The full list of songs Thomas-Rasset is on trial for:

Guns N Roses:"Welcome to the Jungle"; "November Rain"
Vanessa Williams: "Save the Best for Last"
Janet Jackson: "Let's Wait Awhile"
Gloria Estefan: "Here We Are"; "Coming Out of the Heart"; "Rhythm is Gonna Get You"
Goo Goo Dolls: "Iris"
Journey: "Faithfully"; "Don't Stop Believing"
Sara McLachlan: "Possession"; "Building a Mystery"
Aerosmith: "Cryin’"
Linkin Park: "One Step Closer"
Def Leppard: "Pour Some Sugar on Me"
Reba McEntire: "One Honest Heart"
Bryan Adams: "Somebody"
No Doubt: "Bathwater"; "Hella Good"; "Different People"
Sheryl Crow: "Run Baby Run"
Richard Marx: "Now and Forever"
Destiny's Child: "Bills, Bills, Bills"
Green Day: "Basket Case"

No doubt she should be fined for having poor taste in music. But 1.5M is a bit much.

Jason P

Now that I know the tracklisting, she should be fined $3M.

Bronx Bombers

They did offer her a chance to settle for 25k if I remember correctly, I would've taken that rather than fight this out for years.

Eliot Rosewater wrote:

Bronx Bombers wrote:

The full list of songs Thomas-Rasset is on trial for:

Guns N Roses:"Welcome to the Jungle"; "November Rain"
Vanessa Williams: "Save the Best for Last"
Janet Jackson: "Let's Wait Awhile"
Gloria Estefan: "Here We Are"; "Coming Out of the Heart"; "Rhythm is Gonna Get You"
Goo Goo Dolls: "Iris"
Journey: "Faithfully"; "Don't Stop Believing"
Sara McLachlan: "Possession"; "Building a Mystery"
Aerosmith: "Cryin’"
Linkin Park: "One Step Closer"
Def Leppard: "Pour Some Sugar on Me"
Reba McEntire: "One Honest Heart"
Bryan Adams: "Somebody"
No Doubt: "Bathwater"; "Hella Good"; "Different People"
Sheryl Crow: "Run Baby Run"
Richard Marx: "Now and Forever"
Destiny's Child: "Bills, Bills, Bills"
Green Day: "Basket Case"

No doubt she should be fined for having poor taste in music. But 1.5M is a bit much.

BinauralJam

Jason P wrote:

Now that I know the tracklisting, she should be fined $3M.

ya i don't feel so bad for her now.

BrinkofForever

That's nuts. I'd file for BK and then tell them to try and collect.

81

$25K is redicoulous. What happened to the punishment fitting the crime? She stole $24 in music. Maybe $48 should be the fine.

catefrances

BinauralJam wrote:

Jason P wrote:

Now that I know the tracklisting, she should be fined $3M.

ya i don't feel so bad for her now.

she needs to go to music rehab.

LikeAnOcean

81 wrote:

$25K is redicoulous. What happened to the punishment fitting the crime? She stole $24 in music. Maybe $48 should be the fine.

Exactly.


They have to stop picking on people. It should be a punishable crime to sue someone for that much for taking so little.

The record company exec should be doing some jail time.

I can't believe we let this shit go on in America.. Do we sue people millions of dollars for steeling some CD from a record store?

Give me a break!

LikeAnOcean

Speaking of which, what normally happens in these situations?


My mom just called me and asked if I downloaded a TV show when I was over last.. because Comcast sent them a letter warning of copyright infringement..

Does this mean my 27 year old, recently unemployed brother is going to jail for downloading Battlestar Galactica?

catefrances

travelling to bali always results in the bringing back of DVDs. why arent they confiscated at the border? cause clearly its an offense to own, let alone download these movies. :think:

tvismyfriend

You got to remember that she's also distributing the songs and that's where the ridiculous fine comes in.

81

tvismyfriend wrote:

You got to remember that she's also distributing the songs and that's where the ridiculous fine comes in.

that charge her for each distribution that she made. $2 per distro and call it a day.


let the punishment fit the crime.