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RIAA Sues college student for $97.8 TRILLION
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05-30-2003, 04:06 AM
http://www.freep.com/money/tech/newman5_20030405.htm

How fucking INSANE do you have to be? I mean, GAWD!
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05-30-2003, 04:07 AM
That money doesn't exist.
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05-30-2003, 04:18 AM
Gates could easily come up with $97.8 Billion. And that guy deserves it.
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05-30-2003, 04:19 AM
I wonder if they'll win the suit...
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05-30-2003, 04:19 AM
Quote:I wonder if they'll win the suit...

No freaking way. I'm so sure the judge himself has an mp3 player.
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05-30-2003, 04:48 AM
no....hm....billion
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05-30-2003, 04:54 AM
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05-30-2003, 05:34 AM
um, this suit happened a while ago, when they sued 4 college students of redistributing music. They werent just Kazaa whores, they were the guys on Kazaa distributing the music, and allegidly, quite a lot of it. Not being one of those "music should be free" people, that's not an unreasonable allegation. Now, the damages the RIAA are seeking are rediculous. The most a downloaded song can be considered worth the is the price of a CD, ~$15. But then you have to factor in how many times the song was downloaded strictly from him. On average, when I download a popular song and leave it in my shared folder, it gets downloaded maybe twice a day. That's about $30 dollars a day for the most popular songs, meaning it would take about 5000 days, well over 12 years for that amount to be accurate. And that's not considering the songs that arent popular, or the reason people buy cds. Especially on a crowded college t1 line, he wouldnt be downloaded from that much. To accurately rebuke someone, they must first create an accurate measure of how much as been stolen in worth and then, if that amount is not punitive on it's own (e.g. in the case of billionaires) then they may apply additional charges.

Now, as for whether or not he should've been sued, well, that's a different story. Considering the circumstances, to stand by an unenforced law, they should've been given a warning, (1 week to stop redistribution entirely). To appy maximum charges is outrageous.

If i remember straight it was settled for about $10-15,000. This means on average, each student lost about $50,000 considering the fees of a defense lawyer.
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