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RIAA Wins $1.92 Million In File-Sharing Lawsuit

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Tom:
Man, America;

Thrillho:
Tommy, I respect your principled nature, but this ideal you seem to have, also expressed in threads outside of this one, that anyone who wants to make money from making their music is 1. a dick and 2. probably making bad music, disturbs me.

Anyway I think America has bigger problems than this. The media has a seizure if you see a boob on TV. If a film's rating states that anyone older than 17 should see it, no-one sees it. There's probably a few more hurdles before we get here.

fish across face:
I look at spending money on buying some music as saying thanks to artists who I like.  If they've already said they're happy for me to have their recorded music for free, then, OK, cool, but if they haven't made that explicit then I'd prefer to err on the side of caution, out of respect.  Even if I thought they were crazy for asking for money for data over the internet, I don't think this would change much - I like the idea they're getting some dollars that will make it easier for them to keep on doing what they do when maybe they're sweating over feeding their kids, etc.

My views would probably be very different if I liked more music by apparently famous and rich people.

fish across face:
Yeah, true, I just thought you were already off on a different tangent by talking about zeroes and ones and so on... do you think it would've been right to sue this woman if she'd got pirated CDs containing these songs?

Avec:
Am I the only interested in what the 24 songs were?

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