Ouch thats gonna hurt. Bit unfair to pick on one poor person rather than the priates who are making money forging CDs, DVDs, etc.
I have to agree its shocking that they went after a little person. In fairness of you go on to sites like isohunt or mininova to download albums I think it would be very hard to track people doing the ripping down so she must have been a bit of a pleb to begin with to be caught. If you have heard of Axxo (google him) he rips and posts every single new movie released on dvd for download from the states yet its a woman like this who gets screwed. I dont think this is going to send the message the companies hoped, if anything it will have the opposite effect with people more determined to stick it to these companies.
that disgraceful. More proof that all record companies are scum bags. Id love to know waht redord companies they are as I would boycott them all. The poor woman
This was obviously the test case in this area, and unfortunately she will go down in legal history for setting the precedent in this area...its significance clearly lies in the huge discretion the judiciary will have concerning damages...
Come on if her IP address was used and she admitted she had all the songs in question is anyone going to believe the 'somebody else stole my identity' theory.
Thats some story. Like a fellow poster commented, its well unfair that they go for some poor young woman like this instead of targeting those who make huge amounts of cash from dl free music. I guess though that this is a story that really hits home to the average internet user at home and is more likely to make them stand up and take notice.
If a huge company filed a lawsuit like that against me, i'd have said anything to get out of it...lets face it, her life has taken a complete downturn now...
Shes famous now (or infamous) so she can turn this on its head and make money out of it. Appeal, get a publicist and write a book. If she loses the money from a book will pay her fees and if she wins shes a cyber legend!
Aw come on. poor woman? Sharing 1700 songs and she "didn't do it"? What kind of rubbish is that? If somebody stole her ID that doesn't explain how the downloads were traced to her as IP is specific to every internet connection. If she just used this she may have even got away with it.
It does. Very well. I don't have an illegal downloads on my PC but I use Peergaurdian because I don't like the idea of these record companies or who ever it is does the tracking invading my privacy.
I don't find any noticable difference tbh, and even if it did slow it down some bit I'd settle for that rather than having the corporate world spying on my laptop!
Jesus thats a lot of money. Hope the songs were worth it. Will have to get that Peergaurdian thing cos i do use bearshare a bit
Some of the stuff she downloaded was Gloria Estefan and Janet Jackson... she deserved every cent of that fine!