Copyright madness: $1 million for 7 songs

[AT89x]

It's like, NRARRGHGH!!! It's like, it's like, it's like you got BARGHLSSS!!! It's like... you know? It's like... OK!!! ARGGH!!

[thebandmanfalconman]

@AT89x LMFAO!!!!

[iiDahl]

its like MUHHH, its like, its like, its like you got BALLS! its like, you know, its like, okay...

[blowstuffup1]

It's shit like this this, that prove that all laws do is protect the corporate interest while shitting on the little person. Why the hell can someone from one of these big companies get away with so much criminal activity but any regular person gets the book thrown at them. They should not be above the law, and yet they seem to be. It has got to stop.

I can understand punishing for pirated content, but 1 million for 7 songs is not acceptable.

[gnossticc]

Make Tenembaum pay 10 times the original price of the songs, and that's it. Enough punishment that would be, but $ 1 million! C'mon!

[PrestonDowMusic]

this woman's voice is hilarious

[blowstuffup1]

Don't those idiots realize the average person or even middle class people are not going to have even close to that kind of cash. They are wasting their damn time on that. I'd be like I'll give you 99 cents a songs take or leave it.

[rocknmetaldisciples]

@blowstuffup1 No duh dude lol of course they don't realize it that's the problem and that's what I have always said these record companies are completely out of touch with reality plus they're dumb asses because they're wasting there own money in court he should be paying like between 7-10$ for downloading seven songs if you Downloaded over a million songs yes then it makes sense to sue for over a mil dollars, but seven songs are not worth a million dollars,

[1smiciklas1]

ooo i hear some music in the bacground.....now only a matter of time till they remove this video and cenzore the internet...hahaha

[Faulkner18FTW]

Canada is fine.

America is fucked.

Europe is fine.

Everything is fine, but America...

[chriscos123]

@Faulkner18FTW This is why EVERYONE hates America, Americans included

[Faulkner18FTW]

@chriscos123 Canada FTW :)

[chriscos123]

@Faulkner18FTW Mhmm

[cr4yv3n]

Glad i'm in SANE Europe ( for now ), US has gone down the drain...

[Darusdei]

american justice system is fucked up... thank god nothing like this happens here...

[dareapa1]

Looks like its time for him to hop the border to mexico...

[UltimegaSeven]

Get sued if illegally downloading. Get money stolen for buying songs.

You're screwed either way, so mine as well pirate.

[raptors222222]

@UltimegaSeven Though one's like a $.69 to $2.49 compared to $2000+ a song. I'll buy it legally. This guy is getting slammed by companies rightfully protecting their property.

[zenofan1980]

Be a Hero. Stop SOPA!!!

[mphello]

I masturbated to a ton of Lady Gaga music videos. Am I in trouble too?

[mphello]

@mphello Correction: or, am I just troubled?

[addict245]

it's like uurgh!...it's like...it's like...You got balls!... it's like...you know...it's like...

lol

[geekforlifevandc]

use peerbloc

[XxAvineelxX]

i think they should stop going after the people that "steal" a couple bucks worth of songs and start going after the people who STEAL trillions of dollars from the people for their healthcare, education, and homes.

[xXEdonkulationXx]

@XxAvineelxX like the world ?

[TallestBarrera]

After sopa closes all Internet acsess the world Is gon be fucked up

[john81blaze]

i have downloaded over 75 000 songs multiple softwares cracked + movies by the ton....sue me bitch

[Pieishman]

My name is Joel Tannenbaum lololol 

[LadyRuin2012]

150k per song for willful infringement? What kind of bullshit is that?

[manlykscorpa]

how many times does the Professor say "it's like"

[doubs]

does it seem like every voice is a voice over?

[Kool4Sure]

NIRVANA  :)

[MrAirandfire]

Keep Downloading! They going to arrest everyone? music belongs to everyone not just people with money to piss away.

[MrAirandfire]

OMG The rich can't get richer, this is horrible. Please you white-collar fucks keep prodding the hornets' nest.

[Ozuen562]

@MrAirandfire prodding the hornet's, NICE

[Tetzukai]

Downloading is illegal but 1 million for just a few songs?

America is becoming fascist, and most of you are not doing much. They should had left slavery and leave the vicious class gap as it is rather than wasting our time striving for something that's never going to be there.

[FieldMarshalRommel23]

i'm going to send them a letter with my download history and name and address just to piss them off.

[EyEnOtgAy]

Dear RIAA.. I've torrent'd 20,000 songs & counting.. Sue me sue me!!!

[RIAAInformant]

Unauthorized audio track, video reported for copyright infringement.

[eChuckNorris]

If I went and rented 7 films, copied them and sold them to all my friends it would get laughed at in court, why is this being taken so seriously?

[BeepimajeepBeep]

@eChuckNorris While most people see downloading songs illegally as a small joke, it is a very serious matter. All these dumb american kids support a band, then download a song illegally and rip them off??? lol....

illegal downloads also fucks up the economy, and smaller bands.

[greghmn]

@BeepimajeepBeep we middle/working class teenagers can't afford to purchase all the music we want from the music "industry." we have to pay the corporations, who couldn't really care about our $100 (let's just say it's $100. it's peanuts to them), and they make billions off of us. my dad is a professional musician (he makes enough to do it for a living), and he doesn't really think it's a big deal. it's class segregation: the rich screwing over the non-rich.

[BeepimajeepBeep]

@greghmn You didn't create the music... therefore they can sell it for whatever they want. You're saying that if someone creates something, that they have to sell it for a price that satisfies the public? This is why america's education is so terrible, idiot teenagers like yourself.

[greghmn]

@BeepimajeepBeep it is terrible, however NOT for that reason. they never teach any of that in school. i have learned almost nothing at school that i find useful. also, if they don't sell at a good price, who will buy? the public sure won't! they'll lose money. they don't tell us what to buy: we tell them what to sell us. supply and demand. we demand, so they supply. simple as that. also, i DO write music, and if i made it big and some corporation were to sell my music,

[greghmn]

@BeepimajeepBeep i wouldn't give a fuck if someone were to get it for free. i'd rather have extra listeners than extra money. here's a question: do you pay to use youtube? do you pay to listen to the radio? I DON'T THINK SO!!! BOOM! i send messages out to people when i write and people who get the message and like it aren't exactly the crowd who a) has money, b) gives a shit about copyright laws, and c) would download and be willing to pay because they think it's right.

[greghmn]

@greghmn we ARE in a depression, dumbass. also, if you were to break into my house, that's a bit more objectionable than getting music for free, as it causes harm to a person and causes thousands in damage. thousands to the average person is a lot more than thousands to a corporation. they have enough money that they were able to control the media and brainwash sheeple. want an example of one? look in the mirror. oh. forgot. you can't, because your head's still up your ass!

[greghmn]

@BeepimajeepBeep people are going to get it for free, and i'll be flattered because they like it and are a part of my group. the founders of the pirate bay were heroes. also, once i have enough to live comfortably, i'l donate the rest to charities supporting women and children who have been abused, as well as people in 3rd world countries. $1,000,000 for $6.93 of music? that's unjust. also, i see "jeep" in your name. unless you're in the military and drive a jeep for work overseas,

[greghmn]

@BeepimajeepBeep sell the hunk of junk and get a fucking prius. also, i'd shed my corporate ties after a little while by going indie, having free concerts, having political rallies, and organizing (legal) public disobedience and direct action. boom.

[BeepimajeepBeep]

@greghmn 1,000,000$ indeed. Only way to teach people a lesson. I think I should be able to rob your house, because I think it should be free! I don't want to pay for anything... I don't want to follow certain laws...

At the end of the day, you are just another crook; I can't stop you from downloading music, but when America goes into a depression, maybe that will knock some sense.

[AndrewMacedonia]

@BeepimajeepBeep i would shoot you with my gun if you went in my house man.

[Tetzukai]

@BeepimajeepBeep 1 million for a few songs plus tax!! Yeah, that's and sane, economic strategy.... I guess we're all rich on the blue star and poor people never had existed.... LOL

[Xarai]

@eChuckNorris because its the music industry the entertainment industry is following just as badly

[IronBridgeSoldier]

@eChuckNorris because people with money have a problem with it

[Skunter]

fUCK the MPAA and RIAA

[EckoStream]

They are only hurting themselves by doing this... they cant stop it, they cant control it, they can only try to adapt or else they can go die in a corner...

Good news tough, now every single artist has his own youtube channel and make money out of ads... question is, do they realise that it takes about a minute to find ways to get the song for free directly from their youtube channel ?

[casperado666]

oh Tenenbaum... that's all right, he has the money ;)

[lordofserbia]

I was download 1 milion songs for free :)

[casperado666]

@lordofserbia that's because serbia still rules. but sadly enough the different times will come soon bro.

[YOUmommaMUSIX]

this is bs, i think they are faking these people getting sued in hoping to spread fear and hope they will stop, well, people wont. And the other thing that makes me think this is bullshit, 7 songs? thats it?haha, lucky it wasnt a kid or another person because most ppl have hundreds of music in their pcs, i mean a lot!

[HaniHM10]

Atleast this Guy Has Gud Taste in Music .........

[casperado666]

@HaniHM10 incubus? c'mon dude. they had i song.

[MrNudlauge]

omg 1:44 wtf does he say?!

[GlobberThree000]

They should catch murderers and americas most wanted killers hen a silly download, fucking pricks.

[bonnolog]

"It's like RAWR ARR"

[oxireaper]

So you are saying that 28.488.946 people must pay Millions/Billions of dollar? Or Need to go to prison? Lol, sounds fun with 28.488.946 people exclusive kids in a prison... =)

[Phelan666]

I have over 9000 illegally downloaded songs.

[mosniper831]

800 hundred,blah bullshit I have over 8 gb worth of it

[Ozuen562]

@mosniper831 I have over 2 terabytes of music lol j/k

[FlickDaBic]

its like, its like, its like, its like, you have balls, its like, ok

why.

[vibenhard]

@slavenations its hard enough for an artist to survive these days i dont think music should be free

[slavenations]

@vibenhard "these days" - too true. i'd love to fund artists on the front end - give them ample grant money to produce records - then release the music for free. i'm canadian, so i'm used to this idea - nobody watches our movies, but we just keep putting them out there. our guys even did a mock of that hollywood psa; "you're hurting the stuntmen." our guys say "please pirate our movies! we just want someone to watch!" next, music could be distributed via youtube, etc... vote up = more grants!

[TopazSkillMauler]

O shit i downloaded like 4000 songs. Like 5000billion fine?

[RandomPeep4evet]

If you dont share the songs will you owe??

[AstralXRomance1]

Of course the creaters want more of their amount of over millions a year. Of course. What a fucking joke. Anyone else in this world would. Money is the virus implanted in everyone's brain and mouth making them utter such bullshit of OVER-insured (key word OVER) copyright protection....................­Why?

[AstralXRomance1]

@slavenations Quite the same about what I said a few weeks ago. The music industries and Hollywood are still getting shit load off of the fucking merchandise like concerts, movie theatres, t-shirts, action-dolls or other shit like those.

$1 mill. from this guy eh? Makes sense to me! "Hey guys, you know what's funny? Lets make him pay a shit load of money instead of just the price he originally stole!"

I swear money makes the fucking world turn. No one alive thinks they have enough money.

[slavenations]

@AstralXRomance1 music industry/banks/pharma ~ just keep raping the public dime, and feeding us sht. money is a facade - utterly worthless. information/wisdom - the only real wealth.

[RauffIe]

the law is so fucking unfair, and this is what pisses me off about this government, there has been fucking rapists that get a less severe penalty, the law is the law ok , i understand that , but come on 1 million + in fines, i can't believe it

[XxlBiFFlxX]

my mum just got a letter today with a fine of £295 for a song off clubland 16.. i hate clubland and so does my mum, shes getting her lawyer involved and it could go to court

[TheRocklover41]

@slavenations thank you for explaining it clearly i would understand at least 10 dollars for each song but WTF? 1 million dollars Itunes=1dollar We should be able to enjoy music these days not frienken lose our money on it might as well make our own music

[slavenations]

@TheRocklover41 i totally advocate making your own music! getting easier/cheaper all the time! distribute online!

[zombiemike333]

if the music association told me i owed them 1 million dollars for every seven songs id lmmfao and then tell them to go fuck themselves

[flcl49]

what i don't get is, if a friend lends you a cd and u put the song on your ipod from their cd is that illegal? if so then everyone should be put in jail and the artist of the cds won't get a cent because since everyone is in jail no one would come to the concert anymore, nor will anyone be able to buy the songs since WE'RE ALL IN JAIL!!!

[Sakaki709]

It's liek... it's liek... it's liek... YOU GOT BAWLZ... it's liek...

I laughed my ass off on that part xD

[htiberian]

@Sakaki709 And he's a professor?

[P0WAT0TH3P30PL3]

I download all that shit why no SWAT team on me??????

[HarrisonSmith1]

fk the p0lice

[milad2007halo3]

Fuck the law! they should charge at the price of the song costs. Stupid lawmakers this days man, All they want is to get rich off our money.

[multipurpose101]

@milad2007halo3 blame not the lawmakers but the RIAA

[P0WAT0TH3P30PL3]

@milad2007halo3 I don't understand back in the old days songs were apart of our culture now they are merchandise but for the first time in history we all can share our music and share our culture but they decided to try and make money off us our lively hood and our CULTURE!!!!! god I am pissed!!!!

[OSTEHOPP]

why download music... get spotify!!!!!

[azrial4421]

@slavenations haha you looked for comments lol, what a fuckin loser

[slavenations]

@azrial4421 just askin man. so like, what?  it's okay to take, but not to give?

[azrial4421]

@slavenations ive prolly invested 5000 in cds and concerts maybe more, I got bills now and cant afford to overpay for that stuff

[slavenations]

@azrial4421 that's funny. you think buying cd's is an investment.

you know they deteriorate, right?

unless you somehow end up with the world's last copy of "the white album," i really don't think you're going to make any money by buying cd's.

[slavenations]

@slavenations the only reason to pay money for media is to support the artist, and i wholly support that, if that's the reason you're doing it.

still ~ if you want to pay money, buy a digital copy. there's no packaging, so you're not wasting any resources. buy it straight from the artist, if you can - there is no point in corporatizing information. if your lucky, the retailer will guarantee the purchase, so you'll only ever have to buy it once.

[azrial4421]

@slavenations I have no idea what your arguing about.....kinda dont care

[slavenations]

@seekokhean veto. the people who would sue over copyright infringement don't even give a shit about their lousy product - they know what filth it is.

[slavenations]

@slavenations pop music in general is filth.

it's not even music ~ it's a marketing tool.

it's written by psychologists and focus groups.

it's written by market share.

it is not written by artists.

[slavenations]

@slavenations pop music in general is filth.

it's not even music ~ it's a marketing tool.

it's written by psychologists and focus groups.

it's written by market share.

it is not written by artists.

[cdubmeyer]

almost every person on these comments dont get it...yes you are right that if you just simply steal a cd from a store you dont get in too much trouble as you would with stealing them from the internet.....THE PROBLEM that noone understands or doesnt know about is these torren clients such as limewire will AUTOMATICALLY share your files with everyone on limewire and/or anyone downloading the same song torrent as you......

[slavenations]

@cdubmeyer seriously, meyer - the more you type, the less respect i have for you. copyright law is the leading contributor to global ignorance. by charging for information, you are putting a price tag on intelligence.  if you came from money, congradufukinglations, but 95% of the world (at least) did not.

quit trying to make their lives miserable.

[cdubmeyer]

@slavenations seriously slave...um..lol, 0.o epic fail dude....not one thing of what i said was scripted and for you to get that mad and talk ridicoulousy geeky star wars nerdy shit to me which is not even classified as being witty... is just an epic fail....do yourself a favor and go back to school little one...you steal shit constantly on a daily scale so you try to make up excuses of why its not wrong when in fact it is. And i could care less if you have respect for me....who are you..nobody.

[cdubmeyer]

@slavenations and besides that all im trying to do is help people who use limewire and other torrent clients to not share any files with anyone for that is how the authorities get you, but you obviously don't understand that becuz you are straight noooob...you are now ignored now slap yourself

[slavenations]

@cdubmeyer so, what - did i get you to shut up?

i'm just saying - there are other ways to compensate the artists, to ensure that they live lives comfortable enough to be able to keep recording. then what? well, anyone who wants to would be able to enjoy their work. and it's like, what? where's the harm? i just don't understand why you want to keep defending this caste system of intellectual elitism. it's not just music - it's design. it's alternative energy, and electric cars, and where is it?

[slavenations]

@slavenations why are all these things just out of reach? where are all the solutions we were promised - all the means to acheive cheap, renewable energy? it's locked in a vault somewhere so that they can keep us hooked on oil and coal. keep us hooked on sitcoms and pop music. mainstream media. they make the real information inaccessible. it's why textbooks are so expensive. encycloedias. software. it's why we had to deal with vhs when there was beta. why support the corporations?

[azrial4421]

@slavenations no im down with..downloading, its my goto for music

[cdubmeyer]

@slavenations the problem is not just lending to one friend....its lending to hundreds of thousands of other people..its still wrong no matter how you look at it.....i am a huge torrent user but i know its still wrong

[slavenations]

@slavenations the idea is simply to pay the artists for their work up front, through a grant or other subsidy, using tax dollars. there are lots of would-be artists out there. recording gets cheaper every day. let them record an album, pay them for the time they take to do it, and throw it up online.

any future grants/subsidies for that particular band/artist would be based on the number of downloads, likes, and hits. however, the information, once released, becomes essentially "free."

[sniffy45]

yea they prey you will settle and dread the day they have to go to court becasue they will lose. Im affraid the industry made a fatal mistiake years ago and will not be able to recover. If yo get your notice DO NOT SETTLE, tell them, l want a jury trial, it wont happen. Whats the worst that could happen? An uncollectable judgement that you could bankrupt anyway. FUCK YOU WMG

[METALIST1989]

It's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, you GOT BALLS

[deaphh]

BALLS OF STEEL

[erem456]

1 million over songs?! this is not right, yes they deserve credit but to sue for 1 million when people buy a cd for 13 dollars?! this is uncalled for.

[kaye09love]

yeas, artists make very little money. but what about those other people - the songwriters, prodeucers, mixers, technicians, etc. They DESERVE to profit from thier creativity, right? They need to support themselves just like everybody else! If labels see that the artists is doing very low in sales then that artists ends up being dropped!

[wayzey]

Record companies are the ones losing money not the artists. Artists earn most of their money from live performances and earn some from CD Sales.

CD Sales earn FAR more than live performances but the record companies are greedy bastards who take almost all of the CD Sales profits.

If anything record companies should be put on the right track so that an album doesn't have to cost $20. That's 2 hours work for me, i'd much rather download songs and put that $20 towards my car.

[AdamSewell]

any professional musician will tell you that the money comes from live performances. I think this whole filesharing thing has done a lot of good for the fans because it forces these bands to travel where the people who go ape shit over their music can see them live.

also, fuck metallica [2]

[Deelucky84]

Thats speculation. Your not in the industry and you don't know how the music industry works.

[TheKnives777]

being a musician im speaking on a level thats very easy to understand "FUCK YOU WE ARE THE FANS! WITHOUT US YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A CLOSED QUARTERS GARAGE BAND GHETTO DREAMER! "

You rape us for millions in t shirt and concert sales. Plaster your faces all over our city's as if your a fucking god, all the time forgetting that if "it wasn't for your fans"

Lower your prices and maybe people wont steal a cd. 20$ and half the songs suck? fuck you!

PS fuck metallica too, they started this shit

[MadDogMeh]

1:47 :D!

[berryhill88]

She sounded like Trisha Takanawa from Family Guy.

[Kyothine]

this lady's voice is so annoying

[kvikk1]

the actions of record labels are why I stopped buying cds.

[eeldeal]

Screw commercial music. Enjoy good truly free music like Joymany.

[testekicker]

fuck america..the toilet of the world...i shit on your flag

[jordan3649]

Fuck America? Don't speak on what you don't understand. It causes knowledgeable people to laugh at ignorant people like you. Especially when you make it pretty clear that you don't live here. If you haven't experienced something for yourself, you can't make an informed decision. Just some advice. Take it or leave it, either way it will never make any difference in my lifetime.

[slavenations]

@jordan3649 fine. fuck the american polical theatre. fuck the american war machine. fuck american propaganda. fuck american vaccines. fuck the swine flu. fuck hollywood. fuck the oscars. fuck hurt locker in the ear with a rusty tailpipe. fuck your hate for third world countries. fuck your love for cheap shit. fuck your goddamn banks and fuck the stock exchange. fuck the dow. fuck your satanists and your nazis, fuck your slave traders, fuck your novus ordo seclorum and fuck your ignorance. prick.

[visstickproductions]

what is his paypal, i'll support him. Though i regularly buy cd's and i now own over 230 of them. I will keep downloading. Maybe i outdownloaded my cd collection already.

If they want people to quit downloading, this is not the way.

[MakeMusic9019]

I'll support too let me know

Everyone should help

[polarsequence]

The biggest thieves here are the record companies, what a ridiculous fine for such an insignificant thing. They know sales are dwindling not because of people downloading, but because they keep producing crap and hiking prices up just so the directors and share holders can receive hugely obscene fat bonuses every year. Sony's profits still remain in the millions, yet they always cry, fuck them!

[SS27topol]

lol then sue every1 aged 10-30 then

[henan8]

You are missing the point. Its okay that it is illegal to download without paying. But if you steal a CD in a store you dont have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars do you? That is just ridiculous.

The punisment doesnt make any sense compare to the crime..

[azrial4421]

No you missed the point, he didnt just steal the cd he provided it to other people and thats what their suing him for.

[jomomo]

so if you buy a cd and provide it for other people to listen, should you be sued aswell?

[azrial4421]

You paid for the cd?....smarten up

[jomomo]

...fail

[slavenations]

@azrial4421 what are you , azrial - some kind of rat?

[cdubmeyer]

@henan8 its not just the theft of a cd or songs thats involved with this type of thing...its sharing it to hundreds of thousands of others whether you know your sharing it or not...the best thing to do is to shut off your sharing files option on your torrent client.....but every single person did that then programs such as limewire would seize to exist

[slavenations]

@cdubmeyer meyer, i'd like to see you "seize" to exist. you fucking pop tart. you don't even have an opinion; you have a script. your thoughts are about as original as the latest photo shoot for soap opera digest. i'd bet you sweat cheese whiz, you arrogant little robot. who the fuck programmed you -- george lucas?

do yourself a favor: take a swim in a porcelain jaccuzi, then pull the lever for "whirlpool."

[pl4z3]

@henan8 ya i think im just going to start stealing whole albums instead of downloading songs

[slavenations]

@henan8 you are right.

it's the law that's wrong.

[Oveneise]

@henan8

Also, that actually takes profit away from the artists and record companies, since they put money into the physical album. But when you are downloading music, no actual money is being taken away, its just not being given.

[arifiz]

Sigh, so much for music for the masses.. more like music for the rich.. I feel really sick as its not the hardworking artistes but its the corporates who sits rocking the chair is the one whining and complaining about money that they couldn't pickpocket from the general listeners.. anyways, GL Joel

[darlingelf]

People often mistakenly assume that strong copyrights are what keeps culture going. If this were true, how did culture thrive before the rule of copyrights? Didn't culture thrive specifically because there were no strong copyrights? The concept of authorship should not be abolished but strong copyrights by all means should. Strong copyrights are a creation of mass production, which is the sole reason they were instituted in the first place, and abolishing them won't abolish culture as such.

[jimmyn89]

People who are aware of the history of copyright are aware that copyright does not keep culture going.

Copyright was never primarily about paying artists for their work, and that far from being designed to support creators, copyright was designed by and for distributors.

And the fact is that the first copyright law was actually a censorship law. When the printing press arrived the English government was worried that not too few but actually too many works would be produced.

[jimmyn89]

The English government established the London Company of Stationers. The Stationers were granted a royal monopoly over all printing in England, old works as well as new, in return for keeping a strict eye on what was printed. Their charter gave them not only exclusive right to print, but also the right to search out and confiscate unauthorized presses and books, and even to burn illegally printed books.

[slavenations]

@jimmyn89 good info, dude - thanks!

hopefully, the world will never let this happen again. now that everyone who can post also has a personal printing press in their home (or nearby), we have no reason to let the authorities prohibit free speech.

this responsibility belongs to everyone - we have to kill the copyright.

[rblwoaclu]

But something touched me deep inside

The day the music died.

Did you write the book of love,

And do you have faith in God above,

If the Bible tells you so?

Do you believe in rock n roll,

Can music save your mortal soul,(yes)

And can you teach me how to dance real slow?

thats why they want to steal it from you!!!

[420sistermaryj]

a RICH kid in harvard could afford $7 for those songs. what about people that can't afford $20 for a cd because they have to eat or a family to support. Music artist don't live like kings??!!?? thats why they can afford to BUY jet planes and new cars.

[dopefish55]

if they are going to pick at this one guy they might as well go ahead and fine everyone ages 13-30. I guarantee 95% of them have multiple illegal files.

[metalorg]

There is only a few years left until the majority of voters are made of people from our generation and younger. Anyone standing in our way will be mowed over.

Record and film companies better start serving torrents to survive.

[cheddyrod]

Congress should read the bills before they pass them.

[cheddyrod]

Very few artists live like kings. The big record companies prey on most, although not all, of the artists. It is the record companies that are the villains

[Symian27]

You are right, but there are more inflated egos and corporate type pop stars these days than there used to be. Scaling back the industry will be good for the ethics of everyone.

[slavenations]

i'll agree with both those statements.

[enuvune]

best of luck to this kid. this case could have a big impact on the future of file sharing.

[amazeblaze]

O god its started. I thought I had more time :(

[peterscottfrost]

If the music industry is going to be so draconian, we should just boycott them and stop buying music. I can live without it. Movies, too. This is ridiculous. The problem is not copyright law. It is their business models.

[peterscottfrost]

I recommend that people interested in this subject do a search for the Wired magazine article titled "Why File Sharing Will Save Hollywood, Music." I would suggest Googling it, but Google (which owns YouTube) is starting to look like one of the bad guys.