www.theregister.co.uk/con...32731.html (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32731.html)

I guess they will attach her wages. Her weekly 5 dollar allowance just got pwned. :(

Obviously a vicious criminal.

But really charging a 12 year old???
Next thing they are gonne trial her as an adult.
And to what avail, set an example for all her classmates?
Off course the parents are responsible for the consequences of the "crime", so they will end up paying the fine, which can ruin them financially.
I have a feeling this might just backfire on the music company's.

Why don't they just lower the price of CD's already. When they came out with this cool new medium it was suppossed to lower the price of music and be more available. They got the availability part of the equation but i'm still waiting for cheaper CD's. I would buy much more music if it wasn't priced $14.99 per CD. Untill they hold their end of the bargan, people will keep stealing music.

The part that kills me is that cassettes are still so much cheaper than CDs. I have a really hard time believing that in 2003 a CD is any more expensive to produce than a cassette (if a CD isn't actually cheaper).

a cd is much cheaper to produce than a cassette, and for those crying for lower prices, apparently you never watch the news. Universal announced last week they are going to lower the retail prices of cd's by $6 each.

besides that point though, a theif is a theif regardless if they are 12 or 80. As much as kids in the schools talk about this now, her claims of being naive enough to think it wasn't stealing is laughable at best.

If you don't like the music enough to buy it, than you shouldn't have it. If people don't support the artists, they won't make more music that you can enjoy later. What's next? Cars are too expensive now, so its an acceptable behavior to steal those? Whether you steal music, a candy bar, or a car, its still theft, maybe not grand larceny, but its theft.

Are you telling me that a 12 year old girl has the comprehension to question her mother paying for a service?

Heck when I was 12 I studied copyright law so well I was able to say "No Mom" this is illegal and will bring litigation.

The artists are getting ripped off by the record companies anyway.

www.boycott-riaa.com/facts/facts.php (http://www.boycott-riaa.com/facts/facts.php)

Check out the link: "See where the money really goes" futhur down on the page.

I think the real reason the music is so bad today is because artists kinda feel they're going to be ripped off anyway by the record companies, so why bother?

The RIAA can kiss my fucking ass.

They could have surfed the digital music revolution to the top.

Instead they rejected it, and it evolved around them.

Universal has said they're gonna lower CD prices.

Cassette prices are kinda irrelevant these days, so no one's gonna worry about raising or lowering them.

Poor lil lass, I bet she only downloaded a handful of songs too.

Shit, I just worked out though that if I had to pay $150,000 for every song I've ever downloaded, I'd owe the RIAA $342,600,000 - three hundred and forty two million six hundred thousand dollars...and i thought a student loan of £16,000 was gonna be a bitch to repay :)

what the RIAA DOESN"T tell you


record sales IN THE USA have not droped since file sharing programs came out..... it went up.


as whole, the world record sales have droped, because of lower cost of cd copying hardware and more people do it. ( other countrys dont follow the usa rules , duh)


USA and China are the only two countries in the world where the LEGAL is larger then the ILLEAGAL.

the RIAA is blaming file sharers for the global decrease in sales.


it says in the USA we can share/trade music. duping a tape and giving to a friend for free is 100% legal. why is it all of a sudden has the RIAA convined judges that trading music files online is ILLEGAL?

i have download 1000+ of albums in like 8 years , out of the 1000 i probaly ever really ever listen to 100 more then once , and 50 on a normal baises i probaly have bought 70 cd's in the last 8 years 40-50 i would have not bought if not downlaoded them first because i was never exposed to it.

i know this is not allways the case for everyone.

but the majority of people use napster/kazaa to get a song or two buy the cd if they like it. i have used napster like 10 times, i trade cd's with mp3 groups.

is it an excuse? yes. do mp3 trading make me buy more cd's yes, do i feal like i am ripping off the artest if i listen to a album and not buy it ? no.

the thing ripping of the artest the most is the recording industry 90% of bands only get their cd's sold all over country very few bands get pushed by the RA.

you pay 20$ to 14$ a cd and the artest gets less then a dollar per cd...in some cases it isn't much more then then 15 cents per cd like when bands break out with shitty contract to try and make it big and they end up selling a million plus cd's and they get 150,000 to spit up in the band after everyone gets their cut..

This is the saddest fucking thing I have read in a long time. Those fucks should be ashamed even following through with this.

She <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/09/music.swap.settlement/index.html" TARGET="_blank">settled</a>.

I think it is a lame investment to buyy a cd having never heard the band because someone told you it is "fucking cool!!"
so many times I have ended up with shit. And what can you really do then having paid $18 for a cd and cd stores dont take opened CDs back? you can turn it in to a used cd place for 5$ at most. You can try to sell it online like you'll get much for it there either and then you have to ship it.
Filesharing is a wonderful thing. It's just a shame that so many people take advantage and download whole CDs, new video games, etc. because they are too cheap to go buy it and support the cause of something they really like.

$150,000 per song, huh? shit, I owe the RIAA almost $75,000,000....eeep :(

Kazaa told me i have 934 shared files..

meep, i better not break 1k or im in trouble!

It's not stealing. Who hasn't borrowed a CD or a tape from a friend and copied it? Or how many people have been given a CD before for free? But someone paid for it initially you say? So did all the music on KaZaA. Someone originally paid for the CD that this music came from. It's MUSIC....Sound Waves. There's no tangible product that's been stolen.

The RIAA act as if filesharing was the beginning of pirated music. How many remember recording songs from the radio onto cassettes? The recording industry didn't mind then, yet it is the same principle.

up to 150,000 bucks per infringed song? that would set me a few million in the hole.....

Ickabob Krayne
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