Quote:
Originally Posted by RawAlex
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.
|
Justice in America has never been about stringing people up to make examples of them. That mentality is *supposed* to be left back in the dark ages. I mean... I'm pretty sure we could eliminate jay walking if we just executed every jay walker on the spot. But that would be excessive.
Not saying she was smart to take this whole thing to court at all... knowing the evidence against her, she definitely should have settled and she was definitely worthy of some repercussions. 220k (and attorney feeds) is a bit high, especially when there was no appreciable loss on the RIAA's part.