ReVeLaTeD
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join:2001-11-10
San Diego, CA | reply to n1zuk
Re: Got it for free, shared it for free.
If I were the judge I'd throw this out and sanction the defense attorney for even suggesting it.
With all the media, press, etc. abound regarding music sharing there's just NO WAY she didn't know it wasn't legal. |
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dentman42
join:2001-10-02
Columbus, OH
 ·AT&T Midwest
| reply to qworster
I had quit buying CDs before Napster because I was sick of paying ridiculous prices for 1 or 2 good songs. Napster and the like made it possible for me to try out a CD before I bought it and as a result, I started buying the CDs that proved to be worthwhile. So file sharing had me buying dozens of CDs a year, up from 0 in 5+ years. Now I won't buy CDs from RIAA labels BECAUSE of their current attitude. So their sue-happy ways are LOSING them sales.
But it was never about sales. It's about the fact that artists no longer need to sell themselves into indentured servitude with the RIAA. The Internet and even CDR drives allow the artist to produce and distribute their own work, without the RIAA taking the lion's share of the proceeeds, and the Internet makes it possible for the artists to self-promote as well. |
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floydb_1982
join:2004-08-25
Kent, WA
 ·Clearwire Wireless
 ·Comcast
| reply to boltz
-But your honor I didn't know that seat belts are required by the law to be used at all times when driving on the road.
-But your honor I didn't know it was illegal to drive the wrong way and doge rush hour traffic on the freeway.
-But your honor I didn't know jaywalking was a crime.
-But your honor I had no idea stealing a purse was a crime.
-But your honor I didn't know that setting a tree on fire in the nation forest would start a forest wild fire.
-But your honor how was I to know that shaking a baby to death would kill it. |
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BonezX
Basement Dweller
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join:2004-04-13
Canada
2 edits | reply to bhlonewolf_tom
said by bhlonewolf_tom :said by CWO333  :said by BonezX :because if at the time it wasn't law then it falls onto the situation of how can i do a crime when it was legal when i did it. ? And that falls into the protection you get from the United States Constitution here in the US. Its called an Ex Post Facto law. Basically stating that if it was legal when you did it, you can't be punished for it if it becomes illegal later as long as you stopped doing it when it became illegal. But when was copyright violation ever _legal_??? Sorry, that's just silly. file trading was defined as copyright violation as per the DMCA draft, before then it was classified under fair use laws.
the DMCA was drafted into law in 1998. |
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