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It may not be Linux-related, but this is just not right. You may have heard of Jamie Thomas’s trial a while ago. She is being accused of infringing on the copyrights of 24 songs, by sharing them with a P2P service. I have no idea if this is guilty or not, but the fine is simply too much : $80,000 for every song.
Most songs are legally avaliable for $0.99, making the fine (obviously) more than 80,000 times the cost of the song. While I understand the logic of making fines slightly higher the real damage to the copyright-holder, 80,000+ times higher is a little extreme. And $80,000 isn’t the total fine, it’s the fine for each song. $80,000 times 24 songs is about $1.92 million.
I don’t care how good (or bad) the songs she downloaded were, they were not worth $1.92 million. Luckily, it seems doubtful that the RIAA would really collect, since it would be such bad press for them, but this ruling is worrying.
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Yep, that’s absurd. I can understand it a little, because she didn’t just take one copy, but rather distributed copies to several other people, but there’s no way she distributed them to 80,000 people; we’re probably talking more like a couple of hundred at most.