Last September, Minnesota woman Jammie Thomas was convicted of sharing 24 unauthorized tracks via P2P and was told to pay the RIAA $220,000 in damages. Thomas was granted a retrial however, which has gone to verdict today.
Thomas was found to have "committed willful violation" of the copyrights on the 24 songs and the jury has this time awarded the RIAA and the media companies $1.92 million ... [ read the full article ]
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Absurd legal awards will not help the RIAA to sustain their members? stranglehold on distribution. They might as well be selling typewriters. Their desperate action against Thomas-Rasset, like those of a cornered (paper) tiger, was a tacit acknowledgement of their future. Their ?mission? to promote their member?s ?creative and financial vitality? is a red herring. Their real mission is to protect the financial interests of distributors. Anybody want to buy a typewriter? And where is it written that a recording artist should make 100 times that of a teacher? Artistic creativity will survive the demise of RIAA. To the RIAA, if you are looking for people who share music files I stand up and ask other to stand up and say: ?I am Spartigus.?
Terrible news. I hope the RIAA is having fun manipulating judges and taking advantage of their disgustingly low knowledge of technology to make file sharing seem bigger than it actually is. This organization disgusts me....seriously that's the type of thing that ends lives...for what? Sharing music? C'mon what kind of skewed sense of justice are these guys working with here? You would think ONE, at least one of their prosecutors would go "hey aren't we going a little bit too hard here?" I mean if it was a few thousand that would be fine but jesus christ...
So much for the "justice system". The orignal appeal slowed their attackes on the public down to a hault. Now they might start attacking the public with a vengance. Not that it will save their stupid, worthless asses. They will never treat the public fairly. The public has responded in turn. Oh there are those that enjoy being raped but most will go out of their way not to put money into the hands of the RIAA.
so the jury has awarded the RIAA and the media companies $1.92 million. where's this award coming from? the jury must be as completely out of it as the RIAA if the RIAA are thinking they're actually going to recieve their award. if it was an award for stupidity then the RIAA could consider it a winning streak I suppose.
My protest over the RIAA Gestapo tactics:
I will no longer buy any CD's or purchase any music. I have 100's of CD's all legally purchased. No more. I'll just go listen to the guy at the local bar, listen to inet radio, Pandora, or other sources. Enough already. Frak 'em.
Patents and Copyrights are now totally out of control and perverted and now do more harm than good.
And too bad that Obama has installed one of their henchmen at DOJ. Sad.
