What a ridiculous outcome, $2 million fine for about £15 worth of songs? What planet are tehse people living on?

How are they ever gonna see that money? It's not like she's got a cool $2m in her bank account...

$80,000 per song?

Maybe the judge just read the price on iTunes wrong.

The music industry is still trying to protect its dying business model. It's laughable that this industry , despite seeing the writing on the wall for well over a decade, is clinging on to outmoded business practices.

To be fair users must be aware that file-sharing and downloading for free that which you are obliged to pay for is wrong. BUT the music behemoths need to stop fleecing the general public and dictating when where and how there product may be listened to.

i agree this verdict is rediculos. at most she should have been forced to pay for each song at the price the industry sell it to retail. as in itunes distribute the song, only part of that cost go to the lables.

I know it is a rather large amount and they'll probably not get the full amount...but what you lot are saying that it is ok to steal from a shop...but if you get caught just pay the price of the item and be let off? No! Punishment is needed...

no one should steal. thats not what any of us are saying but $80,000 per file. you gotta admit thats extreme. she should have been fined the amount that the songs were worth and damages.

are you telling me you have never downloaded a file that wasnt legit. i think its safe to say even the judge in that case will have some form of copryright breech sitting in his home. be it a movie, 1 mp3 file, or somthing else.

now yeah if her entire catalog was ripped off. sue her... but 24 songs. jesus. for example. i saw wolvereen twice at the cinema, once on launch day with my mates. then a second time with my wife. my mate then lent me the leaked copy without all the cg and stuff. (i have my ticket stubs still) have i broke the law after pumping money for the movie 2wice? i think the entire law needs reviewing. and maybe the industry need to relise that as much as we love cinema. not everyone is gonna go and its time that the music, movie, and games industrys move with the times. piracy happens it always has. and will despite that crazy ruling.

tell me has the judge though where that money will come from. installments of $2 per month untill she dies?

Ludicrous damages like this are counter-productive - regardless of the legal position, the total amount is likely to make more people think that music companies are greedy and grasping. Dammit, I feel that - and I'm a sane, sensible middle-aged person working an an intellectual property business and have never illegally downloaded anything in my life. There are many ways of computing a sensible settlement but this is not one of them.

I'm not saying I agree with the amount, but it didn't strike me as $80,000 per track in itself, but more that she made each track available to other people.

And while the punishment ought to fit the crime, there is an easy way to avoid being punished - don't commit the crime.

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