You Can't Stop the Music
This poor lady now owes multi-million dollar record companies a total of $220,000 in copywright infringement fees for having downloaded songs from the internet and allegedly having also shared those songs with others also via the internet. YIKES!
In an informal pole I conducted amongst co-workers and friends (totalling about 20 people) only one claimed never to have downloaded songs illegally off the internet.
DOUBLE YIKES!
Jammie Thomas, a single mother, will, unless she wins an appeal, be paying this for the rest of her life. Is that fair? Fuck no. What about everybody who ever made a mix tape for a friend in the 80's or who burned a CD for a loved one in the 2000's? That's copywrite infringement also.
It's the Recording Industry Association of America vs. The People of the World. Aren't piraters just a scapegoat for a money-grubbing collective of millionaire producers and record labels that are gonna die out soon anyway?
We should fucking NOT buy any albums for a period of time. Have rolling boycotts of music stores (on and offline) and see what they do.
Sources: AP via Yahoo news, CBS News online
posted by Gucci at 3:52 PM
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Conversely, what about all those records and tapes that I had that wore out and broke? Are the record companies going to replace those for me? I wont hold my breath.
The good news is that in a few years, these greedy multi-nationals wont have money to afford attorneys. They are dying relics. The artists don't need them anymore, and the listeners certainly don't.
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