Illegal Music Downloads

So I read an article about limewire getting shut down because of all the illegal music downloads going on and first thought that sucks cause i went on limewire occasionally.. Then I thought it was interesting it took so long to get shut down..

And also I did a report today in a law class about an article where a lady got sued by a record company for $1.5 million (USD) for illegally downloading 24 songs and then redistributing them..

Seems like quite the illegal download crackdown :\

Ya, that's the criminal prostitution system at it's best

This particular case you would find is that it's setting a case law, or an example of what's going on or going to happen in the future.

Yes, lime was was shut down due to the MASSIVE amount of illegal music, but also because of ILLEGAL copies of PAID products, both computer and physical products.

1.5M US$ does seem fair, ill explain.
major company wants retribution thus;
24 songs x amount of distribution x the period of time it was there for x the possibility that it was taken off & replaced again

So, although that 1 CD of 24 songs may of only been say 30 US$, but that company could of potentially made in excess of 4000 US$ +
And then the band are missing their royalties from that music company, that's in excess of 1000 US$

The music company needs to pay their royalties = bigger suit = more money to cover legal costs.


Do you understand this?

Oh dude I understand it all.. leaving room for discussion lol.

Yea they said if she bought it on iTunes it woulda cost just under $25 US But court costs and everything are under $100 000 US and she claims not to have redistributed (even though limewire is p2p so she redistributed whether she knew it or not)

I think the penalty is a bit stiff..

Yea, there getting bad with limewire, it will be shut down soon enough.

It's already shut down josh.

It might be harsh, but it's setting case laws, precedents and such.
It will get worse in time hehe

Lol yeah it got shut down the other week.

I have been using iTunes Store for the past year anyway, so I don't care. I got sick of low quality songs on Limewire.

why try not
mp3raid
or
beemp3

o.o

"im such a loser with charles3'?

Am I STILL the topic of some discuss eh>>

LMAO Charles

Shiva, so ur download music Illegally?
If so, ur a cyber-criminal; I can report u to the feds and u'd lose ur computer, and u'd be "burned" by all AU ISP's

Charles you're random..

Or try frost fire? works too lol

hahaha when I said discussion.. I meant negative

I recommend filestube.com That place is AMAZINGG

And darren and basset you sooo did not answer my question

I'm not going to start a debate, because I know I am going to lose: downloading music is just as illegal as stealing anything else; start buying your music! Whether it be digitally, in CD format, or LP format.

I always buy cds..idk my obsession with them but I do.

Woah, awesome!

Do you know approximately how many CDs you own?

Darren1 wrote:

LMAO Charles

Shiva, so ur download music Illegally?
If so, ur a cyber-criminal; I can report u to the feds and u'd lose ur computer, and u'd be "burned" by all AU ISP's

noooooo,i dont download..my friends use them

Gimme 5 canadian, we both buy music CD's

I just haven't for the last year, because I'be been listening to old cd's lol