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Judge Slams RIAA, $675k Fine Ruled Unconstitutional
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this is the kid who is actually guilty and admitted it and this follows the reduction against Jammie Thomas http://freakbits.com/riaa-victims-1-...-to-54000-0123 considering that the 24 songs she was convicted of were in her over 1000 cds she owned. And she basically used kazza as a format shifting method (rather then hunting thru 1000s of cd she owned and personally ripping the songs to mp3s she just searched and found them pre ripped on kazza) that one should have been thrown out completely. |
By the same token however, if you bought everything on VHS, that doesn't entitle you (at least according to Hollywood) to ripping DVD versions from PirateBay.
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Format shifting... is that similar to time shifting?
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the RIAA attempted to sue to stop diamond rio from releasing software to rip cd to mp3 since no one sold mp3 back then and diamond rio mp3 players was a solid state disk and not a cd player this would have made the mp3 player useless. the fair use of format shifting is what made it legal (the right to change the format of content you bought) it similar to timeshifting (the right to move the viewing time of content you bought from x day to y day) only in that it is a fair use. |
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gideon, you should format yourself out of here
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Another misleading title by Gideongallery.
A fine is not unconstitional but the amount was. He, a student (26 years old = not kid), still have to pay $67,500, $2,250 per infringed work + he will carry a criminal record because the amount exceeds 1k, for downloading mp3s and have it in his shared folder. Yeah, he must be very happy and *not* regret he bought the 4 albums for 10 bucks each instead... So what are you implying and cheering Gideongallery? That it's legal to download and share copyrighted work? Quote:
This student was even warned several times but he ignored it. So he is also punished for his own stupidity, beside his crime. Don't become that guy. |
we need real lawyer to tell us all here :)
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And if you buy a movie on BluRay and/or DVD you are entitled to make a backup copy for yourself... or rip it to your home storage for backup... |
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my god how totally clueless are you do you even read what i say before you respond might be a good idea since it would prevent you from totally misrepresenting what i said. i have made it bigger for you to see BTW the title is directly from torrent freak no changes this time so don't attribute it to me. Quote:
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Everytime you see something "positive" news on torrentfreak (and that's like 5% of their news) you repost it here (and that's all you do, only to provoke the copyright holders). This guy, a student, still have to pay a fortune and the judge spoken against all your arguments here on GFY. She went as far the constitution allowed her. It's illegal, it has consequenses - that's the truth. |
gideon, stop truth shifting!
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that is a bit harsh. I would think that a fair fine would be a few thousand for something like that. 24 songs is not that much, considering there are probably millions of people with ten times that amount on their computers. I'm 100% against piracy, but sometimes they go over the top.
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Bit of a misleading title when the jury made up the prize money.
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