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Originally Posted by drjones
She replaced the harddrive BEFORE she got a notice from the RIAA. Its a verified fact. She mispoke in court, apparently, and tried to take back the statement later. That definitely didn't help her case at all.
Still cant believe people actually support this kind of ridiculous penalty. What she did should be a misdemeanor at most.
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She was in the position to accept that what she did was wrong, pay a (comparatively) small settlement (probably a few thousand dollars max) and all of this would have gone away.
The idea of this sort of penalty is to recover at last some of the potential loss, and also to show others who may be in the same situation that they are not immune. Considering that songs cost, what, $1 from Itunes, she was essentially found liable for about 950 "shares" per file, if you want to look at it that way. Considering that the same file may still be getting reshared over p2p networks to this day, the monetary amount is NOT all that high at all.
She could have been found liable for millions. She got off easy by comparision, for someone stupid enough to not tell the truth and come clean on it all.