bad_haze

If she lost a couple she could look like Angeline Jolie.

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mr.derp

I call unconstitutional excessive fines

supaspoon

While I agree that the law is outdated and desperately needs to be 'mondernized', friends borrowing eachothers stuff is not 'fair use'. The fair use exceptions are specifically for educational uses, i.e.'s art history teacher using copyrighted images to teach a class about said images.

I don't personally see anything wrong w/ friends 'sharing' stuff, but technically it is still illegal, and doesn't have anything at all to do w/ the fair use act.

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KusH

Agreed

That would mean anyone going to a nightclub or any other kind of venue that has a dj would be illegal. Radio would be illegal, hell I used to tape things off the radio when I was young (back when people still used walkmans lol) and yet no1 got in a big fuss about people recording the radio. So whats the difference now? is it because its just easier to find?

Honestly doesn't make any sense to me, specially if the defendant WASN'T selling the songs. If anything artists/record labels should pay the "pirates" for FREE ADVERTIsING!!!!

god damn greedy bastards just ruined this poor womens life.

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Dittoz

It was made a big deal back then. The cassette tape was going to be the downfall of the music industry. They ran campaigns and lobbied on the evils of the blank cassette tape.

KusH

Point is if its not being sold, its free advertising in my book.

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killerhz

what she should do is file a counter suit against limewire. blame everything on them. i mean, it couldn't have been her fault right?

Urufu_Shinjiro

Well first, she was using kazaa, second, I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or what?

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supaspoon

No it doesn't. Dj's (maybe desperate ones) playing at nightclubs or other venue's don't work for free. They are paid by the owner of the establishment to be there. When you go to a concert, you pay $$ to be there. Do you think a radio station doesn't have to pay any form of compensation to the artists (or their representatives) of whom's music they play? Running a station isn't free, they have to air commercials for a reason.

I used to tape things off the radio too, and back then the industry was 'z0mg tapes oh noes!'. Did I or anyone else give a crap that I recorded of the radio? No. Was it technically a copyright violation? Yes.

Nothing is different here. The main issue at hand is how rediculous the fine is and what's going to happen now. Every knows the fine is excessive. She may as well have walked into hastings, filled a shopping cart w/ cd's and shot 3 employees on the way out the door.

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They purposely don't care about those distinctions, because that would net them less money in lawsuits. Watch any movie, and it has a screen at the beginning that copyright infringement, even infringement without monetary gain, is punishable by a $250,000 fine and X years in prison.

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