Comments on: Justice Served? Woman Who Shared Music Online Fined $9,000 Per Track, $222,000 in Total

By: WM

WM — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:44:40 +0000

Actually, it is a crime when you share it. You don’t own the music, whether ii is a CD, DVD or whatever. You own the right to use the music. Now, when you give your CD away you are transferring your use right. It gets a little stiicky with the digital media, like mp3, and I think the law hasn’t kept pace with technology. The question is, why did the plaintiffs go so hard after this person? There is something missing out of this story.

By: Mayso

Mayso — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:53:47 +0000

if one legally purchases an item, whether it is a CD, DVD, Auto or whatever, is it a crime when they share the item with. i think not.

By: diablo

diablo — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:42:44 +0000

this is bull s**t how about charging the websites that allowed this to go on

By: Hollywood

Hollywood — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:33:06 +0000

Like with cases like this the goal is to make this woman as a example and a deterrence for others. Of course a real deterrence will take a group of thousands of individuals getting caught and finned. Nobody who rips and shares music online is scared when it’s just one person getting caught. But if it’s a recurring sweep monthly of a lot of people across the country then you might see people thinking twice about sharing music. And how is it a crime exactly? Back when home audio was becoming more and more available to consumers you would buy a Lp,cassette or CD and let other people borrow it so they could and make a copy on a cassette for themselves and vice versa. So was that a crime too? Of course if they resell that copy its a crime but sharing to share with your friends? Exactly how many friends can you share with
does it make for a crime? 50,10,2? The people behind targeting the public who shares music haven’t really gone out there way to clearly define what is consider illegal downloading and sharing music online cause there really is no clear cut way to do it. Because if your going to get petty if one person shares their purchased album with just two other people then you might as well make it a crime when someone lets you literraly just “listen” to that entire album that they didn’t buy.