Jamie Thomas-Rasset’s $1.92 million playlist
p2pnet news view RIAA | P2P:- In the finding Jammie Thomas infringed the copyrights on 24 corporate music industry songs, and that they were each worth the absolutely ridiculous amount of $80,000 for a total of $1.92 million, here’s the play list »»»
UMG
Vanessa Williams – Save the best for last
Sheryl Crow – Run baby run
Reba McEntire – One honest heart
Janet Jackson – let’s wait awhile
Guns ‘n Roses – Welcome to the jungle
Guns ‘n Roses – November rain
Def Leppard – Pour some sugar on me
Bryan Adams – Somebody
Aerosmnith – Cryin
Warner Bros Records
Linkin Park – One step closer
Green Day – Basket case
Goo Goo Dolls – iris
Interscope Records
No Doubt – Hella Good
No Doubt – Different people
No Doubt – Bathwater
Arista Records
Sarah McLaughlan – Building a mystery
Sarah McLaughlan – Possession
Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Gloria Estefan – Rhythm is gonna get you
Gloria Estefan – Here and we are
Gloria Estefan – coming out of the dark
Journey – Faithfully
Journey – Don’t stop believin
Destiny’s child – Bills, bills, bills
Capitol Records
Richard Marx – Now and for ever
What would happen if Jammie just flat-out refuses to pay on the grounds the jury was obviously out of its collective mind or, as someone has suggested, they misheard $18,000 (which still would have been bad enough) for $80,000?
It’s just within the realms of possibility that US president Barack Obama has until now somehow missed hearing about the depredations of the largely foreign corporate music industry, only one of which can be said to be American, and then barely, against American citizens. But surely he must have heard of this.
And since he is, as he claimed to be, the champion of ordinary people, surely he’ll want to do something about it?
Jon Newton – p2pnet
June, 2009
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June 19th, 2009 at 8:20 am
Bullshit.. Record labels make million and millions, it may be harder to start a band or record label now but give me a break. Those record labels don’t need to be taking all that money from one freakin’ person.
June 19th, 2009 at 8:30 am
@RA they know they won’t get it. The RIAA lawyers are going to negotiate a settlement, at least that’s what the news has been reporting.
This will undoubtedly come back to bit the record labels where it hurts.
I’m still hoping it was a clever tactic of Kiwi to do this. I really hope he has some sort of super-mega plan up his sleeve and that’s why the defense suddenly folded.
June 19th, 2009 at 8:37 am
Wow, and these fuckers have the sack to call her a pirate?
When will governments see that the music is extorting people left right and centre under the thin veil of an archaic law………..and getting away with it.
To be honest it’s a fucking outrage and I really hope that someone steps up to the plate and puts an end to the charade that the corporate pirate are getting away with.
This is only the beginning, so if it’s not dealt with now then christ knows where it’ll end.
June 19th, 2009 at 8:42 am
“Here is the 1.9 Million dollar “Album” available for FREE download on Piratebay. My upload speed sucks but it’s more of a symbolic effort …”
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4962775/Songs_the_RIAA_can_go_fuck_themselves_to
(Cheers and thanks, scammyguy!)
June 19th, 2009 at 9:20 am
crackhead land. lol
June 19th, 2009 at 9:20 am
@Jon
Lol, nice job mate.
June 19th, 2009 at 9:44 am
Of COURSE the RIAA is willing to make an offer to settle for less…that way, if Jammie goes for it, this precident will remain on the books and they can cite it to help them win other cases.
June 19th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Here is the American Justice system
Have lots of money = trial won
Have little or no money = guilty
The little guy(or person) always loses, why because that is the American way and one little person means nothing to Justice, Government and the majority of the American public.
That is why Insurance companies can decide if you live or die in the States, They have all the money and you don’t.
Poor Americans fight their Wars! Wars based on ensuring American Companies and Government can access more money.
The Trial is no surprise the little guy can never win, it just isn’t American!!!!!
June 19th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Download these songs! Burn them to all the CDs you can afford. Leave them everywhere: on the bus, on magazine stands, everywhere. Label them “The $1.92 Millian CD” and mention the Jammie Thomas trial on the label somewhere. Spread these stupid songs far and wide. Pirate the crap out of them.
June 19th, 2009 at 10:45 am
This is new war !!! We will fight for her !!! Don’t buy these bands !!! Teach them …They are only thanks to us !!!
June 19th, 2009 at 10:52 am
Why didn’t Al Qaeda target the RIAA offices?
This day, piracy has become stronger! Draw your swords!
June 19th, 2009 at 10:58 am
To AndyK: The bands/artists mentioned here are not the guilty part of this story, the majors are. In fact, I doubt theses artists will see some of this money at all….
June 19th, 2009 at 10:59 am
This is why record lables are losing so much money- because of how low dirty and money hungary they are, their ruining it for them selves going after comon people and you know what it opens our eyes so we can see what kind of people were really spending our money on, i hope they lose even more money now because they have just created war with the public who should be looked at customers instead of enemys. if its enemys they want then its less profit they get!
June 19th, 2009 at 11:49 am
when people/industries act out of fear they do very irrational things and typically destroy what could evolve into something decent.
seems they are choosing to win the battle rather than the war and by winning I mean getting real and figuring out a solution- respond not react.
Maybe that’s too logical
June 19th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Hey Liz:
‘Logic’ isn’t favoured by the cartels.
Cheers!
June 19th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Although I don’t like most of those songs on the $1.92 million playlist, I might just download
that Pirate Bay torrent and seed the hell out of it as an act of protest.
Of course my BitTorrent application’s (Vuze) IP filters will be enabled and active.
On only occasion have I ever seen any persistent activity by the RIAA’s enforcers, MediaSentry
or MediaDefender, and that was a torrent of a recent Rod Stewart release, which got pulled from
Mininova shortly after it was posted. Maybe this one will garner similar attention by them.
June 19th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
If youre going to DL the $1.92 album, make sure you use everything you can for privacy, (PG2, tor) it might not be the best protection, but it is better than nothing!!
stw
June 19th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Nothing is foolproof, but actually, PG is Pretty Good.
Cheers!
June 19th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Another manifest error of law ?
One of his Jury instructions ONCE AGAIN is not rooted in any law.
“Instruction 18
The act of downloading sound recordings on a per to peer network Without license from the copyright holders,
violates the copyright owners’ exclusive reproduction right. ”
This act is allowed by the AHRA for the purpose of personal, not for profit use, that is why the RIAA no longer sues for
downloading, they sue for distribution. Since she is being sued for distribution this does not belong here and is NOT
an agreed on defacto LAW.
Judge Davis’ instructions give the jury no choice but to find her guilty, if not of distribution, but of downloading, in a roundabout
way.
This error of law is less obvious than the one from the first trial and shows, not a desire to be just, but to still give the
RIAA the same result in a fashion better suited to cover judges davis’ ass.
The Judge is working in biased fashion with the well monied RIAA.
June 19th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
I’d pay $80,000 to hear November Rain. That song kicks ass.
June 19th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
For those wanting a safe way to download Jammie’s playlist; I just checked and every song is available in the newsgroups and can downloaded safely from a provider like Giganews or Astraweb. Use a search/index site like Binsearch.info to find them. Make sure you don’t download the karaoke versions as they either don’t have the vocals, or they’ve been lowered to allow people to sing over them. There are also a few typos in the list as published here;
“Aerosmnith” should be “Aerosmith”
“Sarah McLaughlan” should be “Sarah McLachlan”
“Here and we are” should be “Here we are”
Just copy each artist and song title and paste it into Binsearch’s search box.
June 19th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
be sure and use Giganews for all your usenet downloading.
stw
June 20th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
How did it come to this?
If any of you think this money, or however much they wind up scraping from this poor woman for the rest of her life, is gonna find it’s way into the hands of The Artists who created that material you are as ignorant as you can be.
Now The RIAA can encourage theft of their products….this sets the precedent: getting paid 1 million times what the MP3 is worth by a Kangaroo Court is much better than having to work for it.
The only way to fight this is to become a smarter record buyer… support Independent direct download services only.
brendan b brown
wheatus,com
June 20th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=63875&g2_serialNumber=3
June 20th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
@surfer:
OMG! Why didn’t you put a warning on that image link?!…
…that was friggin’ traumatic!
8 (
June 20th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
‘anybody else wanna limp?’ – Eddie Murphy
June 20th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
WOW, ive never been called a WHORE till now, thanks Bruno Whoeverthefuck you think you are!!
By the way, where can i send you the bill for the keyboard i spewed on reading your total BS!
stw:)
June 20th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
figuring it the RIAASS way, lets see…..
$15 keyboard X 80,000 = $1,200,000 you owe me !!!
June 21st, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Much as I want to show ’support’ by downloading these tunes from piratebay; I cannot, in good conscience listen to Janet Jackson (or 90% of the others). If I were wearing a tin-foil hat, I’d say that this whole charade is a last-ditch attempt to draw attention to artists who have musically died and been buried.
Sure; nice try. Noone downloads Janet Jackson tunes. The triall should have ended at the point where the list of tunes was brought forward as evidence; with the whole court rolling about laughing.
June 21st, 2009 at 7:07 pm
I can’t see this woman downloading this sort of music. Then again that is my opinion.
I think the jury knows that the “fine” is excessive and the judge should disallow it for that very reason.
This is a travesty and if it is allowed I for one will be an avid illegal down loader. riaa can take a leap at a flying doughnut hole.
June 21st, 2009 at 8:25 pm
The way to deal with the RIAA is a total boycott of the member labels.
Don’t download the songs. Don’t buy them. Don’t listen to them.
Don’t even hum them.
No loss. They’re crap anyway.
June 22nd, 2009 at 4:50 am
all i can say is
Aerosmith “Cryin’”
Bryan Adams “Somebody”
Def Leppard “Pour Some Sugar on Me”
Destiny’s Child “Bills, Bills, Bills”
Gloria Estefan “Here We Are”
“Coming Out of the Dark”
“Rhythm Is Gonna Get You”
Goo Goo Dolls “Iris”
Green Day “Basket Case”
Guns N’ Roses “Welcome to the Jungle”;
“November Rain”
Janet Jackson “Let’s Wait Awhile”
Journey “Faithfully”;
“Don’t Stop Believing”
Linkin Park “One Step Closer”
No Doubt “Bathwater”
“Hella Good”
“Different People”
Reba McEntire “One Honest Heart”
Richard Marx “Now and Forever”
Sarah McLachlan “Possession”
“Building a Mystery”
Sheryl Crow “Run Baby Run”
Vanessa L. Williams “Save the Best for Last”
June 22nd, 2009 at 1:37 pm
She dl’d Richard Marx!!! You gotta be shitting me. Just for that I would have fined her the 1.92 mil, not for copyright infringement but for horrendously bad taste. I’d drop the fine down to $1.00 if she agreed to delete that excrement off her hard drive.
June 23rd, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Dreddsnik is absolutely right here:
“Another manifest error of law ?
One of his Jury instructions ONCE AGAIN is not rooted in any law.
“Instruction 18
The act of downloading sound recordings on a per to peer network Without license from the copyright holders,
violates the copyright owners’ exclusive reproduction right. ”
This act is allowed by the AHRA for the purpose of personal, not for profit use, that is why the RIAA no longer sues for
downloading, they sue for distribution. Since she is being sued for distribution this does not belong here and is NOT
an agreed on defacto LAW.
Judge Davis’ instructions give the jury no choice but to find her guilty, if not of distribution, but of downloading, in a roundabout
way.”
This is what I think happened to Jammie at the first trial, and the SAME THING happened again, at the first trial, she admitted to copying CDs so the jury had no choice but to find her guilty so again.
And this time she was found to have downloaded the songs, so the jury had no choice but to find her guilty.
Here my (downsized) post about the first trial:
Reader’s Write Says:
January 7th, 2008 at 10:23 am
In my opinion, whether or not she shared files or had any on a shared drive had nothing to do with the Guilty verdict.
The Judge told the Jury that if she reproduced a copy without a lisense it was infringement . (the judge likely got this idea from Pariser’s mis-speak, taking her word for it that it was true and did not take Fair Use into consideration.)
Jammie admitted she made copies without authorization. (quite possibly under the Fair Use provision)
here are the instructions the Judge gave the Jury:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/files/jury_instructions.pdf
“JURY INSTRUCTION NO. 13
Each plaintiff claims in this case that the defendant
violated its exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute
its copyrighted works. One who either reproduces or
distributes a copyrighted work during the term of the
copyright infringes the copyright, unless licensed by the
copyright owner.”
They have had the jury nail her TWICE – by instructing them incorrectly.
Shame on you Judge Davis.