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Originally Posted by drjones
Im OK with that actually... if they found out how many times she transferred the songs, it would actually go a long way towards calculating fair damages for the lady to pay.
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OK.. now take it a little further.
Let's find out how many transfers she had....
and lets follow the ripple effect of how many times those songs were transferred (following the logic that the subsequent crimes could not have happened if she had not been guilty of the primary crimes.... or do we just latch her on to the liability of the first and leave the rest alone?).
Do you see how ridiculous it can get and how quickly? The copyright owner now has to chase 1 million little threads. If she hadn't broken the rules in the first place, there would have been no downstream problems to speak of.
Her sharing of 24 songs very reasonably could be in turn the sharing of those songs millions upon millions of times.
Take that into account when you consider the few thousand she would have had to pay out of court, or the $220k she is fined in court.
Or.. we could charge her a reasonable fee for her violations, and then court costs and legal fees chasing down the downstream violations she would have attributable to her actions... Think that might top the $220k? Yeah, and then some.
I don't feel sorry for her at all.