Jammie Thomas has been fighting in court against charges laid against her for up to 1.92 million dollars.
The recording industry has decided this is a just amount for simply downloading and uploading songs.
Weather you know it or not, but every time you download a song. Or are downloading, LimeWire, as an example, would take bits from your files to make the song up for other downloaders.
That is how it works, that is also why downloading is much faster when there are more hosts.
With these hefty fines, it does not take much to make people think twice about downloading.
This woman in the end she did not have to take the brunt of the fines, and they have been drastically reduced.
But my question is, why on earth were the fines so huge??
In New Zealand we don't make anywhere near as much in compensation for murder or death.
But for taking a few songs she has been charged with huge amounts.
By seeing things like this it tells me just how much the industry's thinker just hasn't changed at all. Something needs to be done though. This governments idea for a $15,000 fine seems much more practical, if seemingly impossible. It is already having lasting effects.
Hi Chris,
ReplyDeleteThe recording industry is scared of loosing their profit from selling CDs and DVDs. So they make the fines enormous to stop people from downloading music for free. Unfortunately they still think that the only way to make money is to force people to buy CDs and DVDs. While Apple iTune allows you to buy a whole album as download for a few bucks. So why buy DVDs?
It has gone past that though now.
ReplyDeleteThe time's they are a changing.
Itunes gets their music from the Record Companies, so there is something there for them to earn.
But your right, they are scared.