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Defendant owes $222,000 for illegal downloading
The worst possible outcome -- a fine too high to bear, but likely too low to cause much effort at reforming copyright laws.
By Farhad Manjoo [2007-10-04]

  • We almost didn't have copyright protection in this country

    because of how ruthless book publishers in england were. Looks like we have this problem all over again.

    Amazon's MP3 service should have come out 10 years ago. This woman is getting punished by laws that serve an industry that REQUIRES the government to protect it inability to compete in the market. Record companies deserve to fail as a business and then prosecuted for the invasion of people privacy (Rootkits, etc.).

    I wish ordinary citizens could have such power.

    -- Keppie
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    Thursday, October 4, 2007 03:47 PM
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