So apparently a human life is worth less than the price of an illegal download..

Are they retarded? $80,000 per download? Where in the hell did they come up with this crap? :|

If you steal a CD from a store, and get caught you'll likely get a fine for $100 or something, not $80,000... Bad government is bad.

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I really don't get why people have to pay utterly absurd amounts that do not fit the crime. Why do companies and the jury get to say "You have to pay eleventy billion dollars!"

That isn't justice. I'd personally like to see judges instantly toss out of court any civil case that involves someone being sued for an amount FAR above what should be asked.

Pixel-Pirate

How do you put a price to someone sharing your product over the internet?

I didn't bother reading the entire article or case but I am to understand she was a downloader, not an uploader.

One can easily download something and never share it.

She was an uploader, it's the reason she was tracked down in the first place.

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[QUOTE="Ryan51287"]How does this woman get caught out of all the people that do it?BluRayHiDef

ISPs look for the most downloaded hits, ie. new Lady Gaga, Bieber, etc. So unless you have decent tastes in music, you won't likely get caught if you aren't downloading excessively.

However I'm not recomminding anyone to download illegally ;)

I personally buy all of my music from the I-tunes Music Store. Since getting my I-pod touch back in February-2009, I've purchased over $300.00 worth of music. It's worth the money considering that you can download songs that run at 320 KB/s. That's darn good quality.

320 kbps is the maximum bitrate for an MP3. For most people, MP3s sound decent. But if you like to buy more expensive audio equipment, compressed audio doesn't have good quality that can be expressed through the equipment.

Those must have been some great songs!

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I hate this nonsense where they make examples out of people.

Espada12

Err why?

Yeah, I wouldn't pay a single penny to the RIAA. They gotta be smoking something if they think their music worth $80K a song.

Its a sad world when this type of thing starts to happen (even though it has been happening for years). Millions and millions of people download music and movies and what not, but only a small handful get tried and made an example of. Granted, they could have been a little smarter about how they go about doing this, i.e not sharing the file afterwards and clearing they're computers cache and all, but still this is waaaaaaay to much money to charge per song....

As if the music and movie industries are not already making more money than they should, now they just try and siphon every last drop they can

This is why I don't buy music.

Wow, there's people out there who download thousands of songs. This is just plain stupid.

I'm not sure why you think fines for a deliberate crime should be lower than non-obligatory compensation offered for a tragic accident.xaos

Uh, this.

I originally thought this had something to do with the death penalty when I read the title.

really , what a waste of the criminal system

there are worst crimes such as murder or attempted murder

come on now

and yes its the uploader that almost always is the one caught because well i dont know maybe their the source

! just like if one person walks in and buys illegal drugs there is a ring leader

that ring leader is the one caught most of the time , cause the other rated him out its like that

but still like i said there are worst crimes ,in the world not just america ,

that shoul be handled more common , murder and attempted murder more spacific , those are the worst crimes any one can comit and those should be token more serious then , lets say a common thief as this emplys as

No no, only to greedy companies who can never satisfy their already rich bank accounts believe an illegal download is worth more than a human life.

It's disgusting honestly.