Uni student to pay $974,000 - Summary
Music industries are using methods to track illegal downloading and then sue for the stolen tunes. Jammie Thomas-Rasset was ordered to pay $96,000 a song for her downloads totalling $2.31 million. She is appealing this case. Another student was ordered pay a total of $975,317 for his downloaded music. The case lawyers are making is that these people who are being charged with these crimes are just some of the "millions of decent young people who thought downloading music free of charge was fine."
I understand if these lebels want to identify people downloading music and stop it, but let the punishment fit the crime! Being charged millions of dollars is disgusting. A lot of offenders are good kids try to pay their way through school and made one bad decision. You should not go after them for millions! |