Comments on: Student win for Mavis Roy v the RIAA

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:20:23 +0000

“she did not have a computer in her house at the time she was alleged to have downloaded the music”

What a waste of everybody’s time.
We only have one short life.
This is sad.

By: Natanael L

Natanael L — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:36:51 +0000

I’ve seen Idiocracy! xD

“This was one of several RIAA downloading cases still active in the courts. The RIAA has announced that it will discontinue pursuing litigation against individuals where downloading is suspected, looking instead to the Internet providers to deter such activity.”

… thus killing free speech since the filters will have a 0.00001% accuracy.

By: surfer

surfer — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:54:36 +0000

great analogy Crosbie, I saw that movie. hilarious!

stw

By: Crosbie Fitch

Crosbie Fitch — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:35:14 +0000

I make that $17.4 million (218x$80k).

If you have a business model that suffers a loss of $17million simply because someone’s sharing some MP3 files, and there are around a million people sharing to a similar extent, that comes to about $17 trillion.

Did you know that $17trillion is the US GDP?

Either the US should declare war on file-sharers, or it should ask the RIAA where its members have been hiding what is clearly a gargantuan amount of undisclosed revenue.

I suspect it’s going to pick the first option.

Watch the movie Idiocracy to find out why.

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:25:39 +0000

@surfer:

Not really surprising, coming from an industry that would have you believe things, such as, Milli Vanilli were musicians, or that copyright infringement is a criminal offense.

By: surfer

surfer — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:10:45 +0000

‘The RIAA disputes this entire characterization of events. Spokesperson Cara Duckworth tells Ars, “We’re evaluating our options but currently have no intention of bringing legal action against anyone else in the household.” But that doesn’t mean they think the evidence was bad—clearly, there’s still the suspicion that the kids did it.’

So the spinsters take offense to the TRUTH being posted about them? dropping the lawsuit against the defendant ISNT a win? but an entire mis-characterization of events?

wtf ?!?!?!