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Mr-White

Mr-White

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A US student has been ordered to pay $675,000 (£404,000) to four record labels for breaking copyright laws after sharing music online.

The Boston University student, Joel Tenenbaum, had admitted in court that he had downloaded and distributed 30 songs at issue in the case.
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How do these people intend to pay such high fines ?

MW
 
Jeff Lynne said:
I'm not into torrents and file sharing but does this kind of thing mean that it's not safe to do so and that they can always trace you?
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they make examples of people from time to time but if you look at the ratio of

millions of torrent users VS a few that get fined

you can work out the odds yourself.
 
Every single thing you do your ISP can log - so next time you are downloading porn , be careful, they are watching you.
 
Efour2 said:
Every single thing you do your ISP can log - so next time you are downloading porn , be careful, they are watching you.
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I'm pretty sure they're not a lot to view those logs unless ordered to by the police due to data protection.

The main point of this thread was the huge fines, is it just me or is that just an unrealistic figure to pay back ?

The maximum the judge could fine was up to $4.5m

MW
 
Its 100% scare tactics. HE will be paying $100 a month for the rest of his natural life.

it kinda explains a system of how they came to that fine at the bottom.
 
He will just Claim bankruptcy and in five years he will be ok.
Silly thing is the courts know he will do this so whats the point?
 
The huge fines are simply a Music/Media industry propaganda trick to try to scare people into not partaking in copyright infringement.


As you can see it is really working... :rolleyes:
 
just make the fine $1000 or £1000 and fine lots of people

that would actually make a difference in reducing copyright theft

trying to fine a few people $132,344,435,322,555 who will never be able to pay is just ridiculous
 
this^

People wouldnt be able to refuse to pay £1000 as its a fairly manageable fine and if everyone was getting them it would certainly make me think twice....I mean , er not that i download stuff illegally ofcourse.

What is the point in giving people stupidly big fines that everyone knows they will never be able to pay back :confused:
 
It's another way for the RIAA to screw over the artists....sorry no royalties for you this year, filesharer hasn't paid his 10millon dollar fine :D
 
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