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Regardless of her trial strategy, the absurdity here is the federal law permitting essentially a financial death penalty for an individual sharing a few songs.
by reader5000 16y ago
Regardless of her trial strategy, the absurdity here is the federal law permitting essentially a financial death penalty for an individual sharing a few songs. The statutory copyright penalties were clearly written with commercial-type infringement in mind, not individuals engaging in personal use. The penalty is grossly unfair, the RIAA - regardless of their settlement offers - come off looking like huge pieces of shit, and the whole thing needs to be appealed and the judgment reversed.
- chancho 16y ago"The statutory copyright penalties were clearly written with commercial-type infringement in mind" The whole "these bits are worth $X each" scenario becomes meta-absurd when you consider commercial infringement. At $60K/song, The Pirate Bay would be on the hook for more money than the Earth could produce before it was consumed by the sun.