20 year old ordered to pay $30,750 for illegal downloads !

Hawk · Post by **Hawk** » Tuesday Jan 16, 2007

Today (1/16/07) Altoona Mirror.

For failure to respond to record company claims , she must pay $750 for each song she illegally downloaded.

Comments ?

Merge · Post by **Merge** » Tuesday Jan 16, 2007

SuffrInLys · Post by **SuffrInLys** » Tuesday Jan 16, 2007

what if you already DL ed them? can you move them to a different folder so they can't tell?

cause i'm fucked.. unless of course there is a narc on the page then.. hhaha just kidding!!!

i have never done that

SuffrInLys · Post by **SuffrInLys** » Tuesday Jan 16, 2007

that means shw only DL ed 41 songs like that.. i know people who have like 500-1000 damn that sucks for them

Heartless_Mockery_Records · Tuesday Jan 16, 2007

I think realistically that the RIAA once in awhile decides to make an example out of someone, in hopes of scaring enough people straight... it would be utterly impossible for them to track down and prosecute everyone who downloads something illegally. so i think you will be ok Myke.

I don't get the Mirror, was this a local/regional story or a national one?

How many people do you personally know who have been prosecuted for downloading? I don't know anyone... I'm not saying this didn't happen, just that I personally feel its more of a scare tactic than anything, but I'll have to find a copy of the Mirror and read it.

SuffrInLys · Post by **SuffrInLys** » Tuesday Jan 16, 2007

i couldn't stop anyway .. i am addicted to it.. i am sure in a year or two there will be a disorder accreditted to this and then i will get the case over turned by reason of mental defect!!!!

limp bizkit made me do it!~!!

mjb · Post by **mjb** » Tuesday Jan 16, 2007

ouch!!!

SpellboundByMetal · Post by **SpellboundByMetal** » Tuesday Jan 16, 2007

Nazis!

Baceman Spiff · Post by **Baceman Spiff** » Tuesday Jan 16, 2007

Where's Jonny Cochran when you need him? Dead I think. Can somebody say 'appeal' ??

Mackovyak · Post by **Mackovyak** » Tuesday Jan 16, 2007

That's why my bearshare and internet account are still signed up in an ex-girlfriends name! And godbless wireless internet connections!!

MeYatch · Post by **MeYatch** » Tuesday Jan 16, 2007

Mackovyak wrote:That's why my bearshare and internet account are still signed up in an ex-girlfriends name! And godbless wireless internet connections!!

oh man, thats hillarious

HurricaneBob · Post by **HurricaneBob** » Tuesday Jan 16, 2007

Should have used Peer Guardian......

Primates · Post by **Primates** » Tuesday Jan 16, 2007

Thats the beauty of P2P. RIAA and MPAA cant track everyone. They do in fact pick in choose on who to catch and who not to. But then again youve got shit like The IRC Networks that use mIRC. They get music and movies a few weeks before they even come out. But if i were you guys i wouldnt fret.

Naga · Post by **Naga** » Friday Jan 19, 2007

Yeah, I wouldn't let it bug you. They said long time ago that they could figure out where things come from. You know what that was to me? Total BS. It's simply a series of scare tactics the RIAA is trying to use on people. I think they're mostly worried about people who download thousands upon thousands of songs, then turn around and upload them to everyone they know, and burn thousands of CDs for profit. The rest of the P2P users... What do they care? They won't make their money back off the rest

ZappasXWife · Post by **ZappasXWife** » Friday Jan 19, 2007

I agree, I think it is all a bunch of BS scare tactics, oh yea every once in awhile they nail someone to make an example of but your chances of being that person are SO slim. A lot of people are scared by this and have given up downloading because of it...it surprises me how many believe it. Was this a local person that got caught? Did not see the article.

Naga · Post by **Naga** » Friday Jan 19, 2007

Yeah, I'm curious too, where was this at? And what section was this in, if anyone would know? Cos I searched the entire Jan. 16th Mirror front to back (skipping Sports of course) and found nothing in it

Hawk · Post by **Hawk** » Friday Jan 19, 2007

ZappasXWife wrote:I agree, I think it is all a bunch of BS scare tactics, oh yea every once in awhile they nail someone to make an example of but your chances of being that person are SO slim. A lot of people are scared by this and have given up downloading because of it...it surprises me how many believe it. Was this a local person that got caught? Did not see the article.

i don't have that paper anymore. They originally went after the mother, then switched to the oldest daughter. It was a Federal judge who issued the decision . I believe in the state of New York.