Par for the course for RIAA (ASCAP, too). Thieves aspire to steal larger and larger amounts. I remember them shaking down tavern owners in the 70's for playing records; even radio.
Thank you, Mark Snyder -----Original Message----- that's $80,000 per song! On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:12 AM, phartz...@gmail.com <phartz...@gmail.com>wrote: > Ms. Jammie Thomas-Rasset has been ordered to pay $1.92 million > dollars to record companies associated with the RIAA because she had > 24 illegal copies of songs on her computer that she was sharing with > others. While most folks will probably think that such a heavy award > is ridiculous, and will probably ruin the life of the defendant in > this case, the RIAA could not be more pleased, and intends to repeat > the process against numerous others who have been fingered as having > infringed upon music copyrights. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
