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That seems absurd to me. Apparently she was sharing on a P2P network. There's more on this here: http://www.zeropaid.com/news/86457/jammie-thomas-fined-1-92-million-for-sharing-24-songs/ And a lot more on it here: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/jammie-thomas-retrial-verdict.ars best, Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Buzap Buzap" <buzap@gmx.net> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 6:20 PM Subject: OT: Thomas-Rasset vs. RIAA > Hi folks > > I just read in disbelief: > "A federal jury Thursday found a 32-year-old Minnesota woman guilty of > illegally downloading music from the Internet and fined her $80,000 > each -- a total of $1.9 million -- for 24 songs." > http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/18/minnesota.music.download.fine/ > > Ok, it was probably stupid of her to pretend she did not download > anything. But still - with 2Mio.$ there is something terribly wrong > here... > > In recent years, I kind of felt inclined to buy less and less major >label > music. I often prefer to get music from people I know personally or I >see > on gigs, most of them are not major label. There is a lot of Indie music > out there to keep me happy for quite a while. > It seems to me that major labels are forgetting one important thing: >It's > supposed to be FUN to buy & listen your favorite music. But I don't >enjoy > it so much anymore with all these stories... > > I won't be reading any mails this week-end - still, felt like writing > this. Am I the only one who finds these news disturbing? > > best regards > Buzap > -- > GMX FreeDSL Komplettanschluss mit DSL 6.000 Flatrate und Telefonanschluss > für nur 17,95 Euro/mtl.!* http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02 > >