Student Shares 30 Songs, Gets Sued for $675,000 by RIAA

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Uploaded by on Apr 9, 2011

In a recent appeal of a decision that gutted a $675,000 finding against an Internet user who downloaded and shared just 30 songs, the government sided with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in claiming that a judge has no right to reduce the amount, no matter how "excessive" it may be deemed.

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  • Suing your customers is a very bad business practice...especially when non RIAA artists are selling their music direct via iTunes. BOYCOTT RIAA artists recordings, MP3s, CDs and DVDs until they pressure the RIAA to back the Fuck OFF! Buy 100% Independent music, take down the RIAA goons.

  • @DonSSanders Word.

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  • Agreed. This is an attempt to scare us. I will dedicate my next "illegal" download to Joel.

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  • Thats why i dont watch movies anymore... they suck!

  • @TheUSMetalhead

    LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL :D :D

  • the riaa is asking for $150,000 per song in most lawsuits, meaning that a $250 ipod classic is worth 6 TRILLION dollars. in comparison, the ENTIRE us military budget, widely criticized for being extremely high, is only 680 billion a year.

  • Just an fyi.. he didn't just download, he shared the music on Kazaa.

    But anyway, glad I'm not Joel.

  • @lohenry According to the Obama administration, you should get sued for 1,000,000,000 which is a quadrillion dollars.

  • for that kind of money they could make 30 better songs, music video for every one of them and even pay for very good shrink... I downloaded 30 new songs just in the last hour... fuck the RIAA

  • i'm surprised the jews at riaa would chase another jew in court

    i thought they protected each other

  • I am extremely insulted as a customer, I will NEVER buy any music products from them again in my life. This amount of money is absolutely horrendous.

  • Nancy Gertner, you have my respect, RIAA, not so much

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