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Title: Six figures for downloads
Post by: Kaos on September 20, 2011, 06:30:11 AM
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/19/music-fan-owes-675000-for-illegally-downloading-music-court-rules/?test=latestnews

Pathetic
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: AUChizad on September 20, 2011, 09:41:25 AM
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/19/music-fan-owes-675000-for-illegally-downloading-music-court-rules/?test=latestnews

Pathetic
This is whoreshit.

Hopefully being a moving target so far will be enough to protect me.

If the feds raid my Drobo (http://drobo.com/), I am royally fucked. Like 50 times my net worth fucked.
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: AUChizad on September 20, 2011, 09:45:35 AM
I seriously wonder what are the specifics of that suit? Did he just get busted for downloading one song, and they assumed everything on his hard drive was downloaded? Where did they pull $675,000 from? A dollar per song? If so, he's got a bigger music collection than I do, which is impressive. I probably would still be more financially fucked if factoring in movies.

What if you burned a CD from a friend? What about all those cassettes from the early 90's you recorded in your dual tape deck?
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: GH2001 on September 20, 2011, 09:48:57 AM
I seriously wonder what are the specifics of that suit? Did he just get busted for downloading one song, and they assumed everything on his hard drive was downloaded? Where did they pull $675,000 from? A dollar per song? If so, he's got a bigger music collection than I do, which is impressive. I probably would still be more financially fucked if factoring in movies.

What if you burned a CD from a friend? What about all those cassettes from the early 90's you recorded in your dual tape deck?

You're worried aren't you?
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: Saniflush on September 20, 2011, 10:10:14 AM
You're worried aren't you?

Federal pound him in the ass prison level of worried.
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: Buzz Killington on September 20, 2011, 10:13:22 AM
What if you burned a CD from a friend? What about all those cassettes from the early 90's you recorded in your dual tape deck?

Shit...all the mix tapes I made back in HS could come back to screw me?  Who knew?
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: Vandy Vol on September 20, 2011, 10:52:12 AM
Where did they pull $675,000 from? A dollar per song? If so, he's got a bigger music collection than I do, which is impressive.

Really?  Have you been intentionally ignoring the news over the past five years?  Blocked out memories of all the multi-million dollar lawsuits that the RIAA won?

The Copyright Act allows damages ranging from $750 to $150,000...per infringement.  Which means per song or movie.
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: Snaggletiger on September 20, 2011, 10:57:33 AM
Really?  Have you been intentionally ignoring the news over the past five years?  Blocked out memories of all the multi-million dollar lawsuits that the RIAA won?

The Copyright Act allows damages ranging from $750 to $150,000...per infringement.  Which means per song or movie.

Shit just got fo realz.
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: Saniflush on September 20, 2011, 11:00:00 AM
Really?  Have you been intentionally ignoring the news over the past five years?  Blocked out memories of all the multi-million dollar lawsuits that the RIAA won?


Weren't you fuckers in a band together?  This never been a topic of discussion between set?
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: Vandy Vol on September 20, 2011, 11:04:29 AM
Weren't you fuckers in a band together?  This never been a topic of discussion between set?

After he received 589,623 cease and desist letters, AWK and I tried to warn him.  We focused more on the "federal pound him in the ass prison" type of warning, and less on the "millions of dollars in fines" warnings.

I guess we didn't realize that he wasn't that scared of forced butt sex...
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: Snaggletiger on September 20, 2011, 11:06:19 AM
After he received 589,623 cease and desist letters, AWK and I tried to warn him.  We focused more on the "federal pound him in the ass prison" type of warning, and less on the "millions of dollars in fines" warnings.

I guess we didn't realize that he wasn't that scared of forced butt sex...

I mean but really, who is?
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: Saniflush on September 20, 2011, 11:06:27 AM
After he received 589,623 cease and desist letters, AWK and I tried to warn him.  We focused more on the "federal pound him in the ass prison" type of warning, and less on the "millions of dollars in fines" warnings.

I guess we didn't realize that he wasn't that scared of forced butt sex...

Well when you put it that way......
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: AUTiger1 on September 20, 2011, 12:10:50 PM
Since he isn't scared of forced butt sex, does that mean I can no longer tell him "he gone get raped"?
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: Vandy Vol on September 20, 2011, 12:14:04 PM
Since he isn't scared of forced butt sex, does that mean I can no longer tell him "he gone get raped"?

Maybe he's afraid of face rape?  I'm not sure...he's too damn tall for me to test that theory.
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: AUTiger1 on September 20, 2011, 12:30:35 PM
Maybe he's afraid of face rape?  I'm not sure...he's too damn tall for me to test that theory.

You're not doing it right.  Cap his fucking knees and then "SURPRISE!" ......................wait....huh?
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: AUChizad on September 20, 2011, 01:46:36 PM
Really?  Have you been intentionally ignoring the news over the past five years?  Blocked out memories of all the multi-million dollar lawsuits that the RIAA won?

The Copyright Act allows damages ranging from $750 to $150,000...per infringement.  Which means per song or movie.

That is so grossly inequitable, I guess it never registered.

How the fuck can they estimate one digital copy of a song you can download for $.99 is actually worth $150,000 in damages.
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: AUTiger1 on September 20, 2011, 01:55:18 PM
That is so grossly inequitable, I guess it never registered.

How the fuck can they estimate one digital copy of a song you can download for $.99 is actually worth $150,000 in damages.

You need to be more worried about what they are going to do to you in federal pound me in the ass prison.   :)
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: Saniflush on September 20, 2011, 02:18:47 PM
You need to be more worried about what they are going to do to you in federal pound me in the ass prison.   :)

We've already established that he likes to have his collards stirred.
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: AWK on September 20, 2011, 02:35:14 PM
That is so grossly inequitable, I guess it never registered.

How the fuck can they estimate one digital copy of a song you can download for $.99 is actually worth $150,000 in damages.
I think it's called a deterrent.  Apparently, it's not working.  They should probably raise it.
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: Snaggletiger on September 20, 2011, 02:40:00 PM
I think it's called a deterrent.  Apparently, it's not working.  They should probably raise it.

Agree with this.  And make a huge example of the next poor schlep they catch.  Find some guy that's been trying to duck them for a while after getting a bunch of C & D letters.  Nail his ass to the wall, literally and figuratively.  Splash his mug all over the media.  He'll be the face of pirated music. 
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: Saniflush on September 20, 2011, 02:57:08 PM
Agree with this.  And make a huge example of the next poor schlep they catch.  Find some guy that's been trying to duck them for a while after getting a bunch of C & D letters.  Nail his ass to the wall, literally and figuratively.  Splash his mug all over the media.  He'll be the face of pirated music.

  :thumsup:
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: Vandy Vol on September 20, 2011, 05:42:13 PM
Agree with this.  And make a huge example of the next poor schlep they catch.  Find some guy that's been trying to duck them for a while after getting a bunch of C & D letters.  Nail his ass to the wall, literally and figuratively.  Splash his mug all over the media.  He'll be the face of pirated music.

I'm pretty sure the poster would look something like this:

(http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/8611/riaaposter.jpg)
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: Token on September 20, 2011, 06:39:15 PM
 :thumsup:
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: AUTiger1 on September 20, 2011, 08:25:42 PM
I'm pretty sure the poster would look something like this:

(http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/8611/riaaposter.jpg)
:kimclap:
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: AUChizad on September 20, 2011, 09:12:28 PM
LOL, Larry. LOL.
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: Vandy Vol on September 20, 2011, 09:42:38 PM
Holy fucking shit.

I was actually able to post a picture of Chad without him deleting my post?

Epic.
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: Kaos on May 21, 2012, 03:53:00 PM
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/21/court-wont-reduce-student-675g-fine-for-illegally-downloading-30-songs/?test=latestnews

Supreme Court lets $680,000 fine for 30 songs stand.

 :facepalm:
Title: Re: Six figures for downloads
Post by: Snaggletiger on May 21, 2012, 03:59:33 PM
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/21/court-wont-reduce-student-675g-fine-for-illegally-downloading-30-songs/?test=latestnews

Supreme Court lets $680,000 fine for 30 songs stand.

 :facepalm:

Shit just came back and got fo realz again.