Ridiculous Industry of @$$holes in America strikes again

[lightdarkness]

http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/vnews/.../425cf2fc4f353

For those of you who are too damn lazy...

Junior at Duke being sued for 3 million for swapping movies and music on Internet2 (High speed college network, new protocols). 400 More lawsuits to come.

Discuss.

[MalReynolds]

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Yup, uh, sue the hell out of him, what he was doing is outside of the law. Very outside of the law. There's no way the court is going to get that amount of money out of him, but it scares away a lot of other people in the area.

Sue him, he deserves it.

Mal

[jewpinthethird]

RE: Ridiculous Industry of @$$holes in America strikes again

Honestly, if you are sharing files with your friends at College, why not just burn a DVD or CD of music and movies and have people pass that around instead of risk getting caught using a filesharing program...because honestly, it doesnt seem like RIAA cares all that much about that....and the evidence can be destroyed easily too.

[MalReynolds]

RE: Ridiculous Industry of @$$holes in America strikes again

Exactly. A pile of DVD's is set ablaze a lot easier than THE INTERNET. Jeeze.

Mal

[lightdarkness]

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Honestly, if you are sharing files with your friends at College, why not just burn a DVD or CD of music and movies and have people pass that around instead of risk getting caught using a filesharing program...because honestly, it doesnt seem like RIAA cares all that much about that....and the evidence can be destroyed easily too.

There are like 250 colleges on this network buddddddddy

[jujo07]

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I think it's ridiculous. I don't understand how people can justify downloading music as stealing though. I also don't understand how the RIAA thinks they can control all the college's networks.

Also why do you guys think the lawsuit is so high?

[tnyhwk900]

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Also why do you guys think the lawsuit is so high?

Because they can. Because we live in a nation where you can sue the fuck out of someone if you have the money.

[User6773]

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Also why do you guys think the lawsuit is so high?

Because they can. Because we live in a nation where you can sue the fuck out of someone if you have the money.

Regrettably, this is also a country where you can sue someone for way more than the actual damages were worth.

If you steal something, yeah, you deserve to pay a fine, but it shouldn't be thousands of dollars more than the item actually costs.

[ImEric12]

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I think it's ridiculous. I don't understand how people can justify downloading music as stealing though. I also don't understand how the RIAA thinks they can control all the college's networks.

Also why do you guys think the lawsuit is so high?

One way or another, downloading music is wrong. It is entirely illegal, and is stealing just as much as walking up to a store and putting a cd in your jacket and walking out with it. I've accepted the fact that no matter how much I try to argue it, stealing music IS wrong.

That doesn't mean that I don't still do it. I just consider myself a hypocrite, and I'm fine with that.

[JurseyRider734]

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Also why do you guys think the lawsuit is so high?

Because they can. Because we live in a nation where you can sue the fuck out of someone if you have the money.

Regrettably, this is also a country where you can sue someone for way more than the actual damages were worth.

If you steal something, yeah, you deserve to pay a fine, but it shouldn't be thousands of dollars more than the item actually costs.

Or millions, in this case.

I feel bad for the guy. We should fund him.

[talisman]

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The temptation to dl on that network though....

jesus. Movies in two minutes. songs in twenty seconds.

Here's the key kids: don't host files. Just dl them.

[JurseyRider734]

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Since they started having lawsuits against those companies i've had my cousin help me out with configuring Kazaa so that it would be extremely hard to track me. Just don't let people upload from you.

[ddrruler]

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Here's the key kids: don't host files. Just dl them.

Hah I don't ive known this forever

edit: Im not sure if he should be charged or not because on one hand he broke the law but on the other he is randomly being sued for something millions of kid/adults do...

[RevenG-]

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I think that if you get sued it should be like this:

Movie...$25
You share it with 5 friends.
$25 x 5 = $125


So you sew them for the $125. So every friend you share it with costs you that amount of the movie. Or:


Movie...$25
Share it with 5 friends...
Multiply the cost by 2 each friend...
$50 x 5 = $250


See my point? This would be a bit more useful. But would probably not scare people into not doing wich is a problem. Thus, the one person gets too much of a punsihment to scare others to not share movies or music or, only sew a couple hundred dollars and possibly still keep kids doing it, but less.
But it is just hard to choose a right amount to sue in a right amount. So its almost always unfair.

[jewpinthethird]

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Honestly, if you are sharing files with your friends at College, why not just burn a DVD or CD of music and movies and have people pass that around instead of risk getting caught using a filesharing program...because honestly, it doesnt seem like RIAA cares all that much about that....and the evidence can be destroyed easily too.

There are like 250 colleges on this network buddddddddy

Start with one CD or DVD, give it to a friend. Then that friend copies it and gives it to a friend. And then that friend copies it and gives it to a friend. Et cetera.

There was even a movie made using this concept titled "The Ring."