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RIAA Fines: Not so Fine
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| Yesterday I told the story of RMS and his magic bread, and what it taught us
| about sharing; here's the negative corollary, courtesy of Charles Nesson:
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| Imagine a law which, in the name of deterrence, provides for a $750 fine
| [the lower threshold for statutory damages] for each mile-per-hour that a
| driver exceeds the speed limit, with the fine escalating to $150,000 per
| mile over the limit if the driver knew she was speeding.
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| Imagine that the fines are not publicized, and most drivers do not know they
| exist. Imagine that enforcement of the fines is put into the hands of a
| private, self-interested police force that has no political accountability,
| that can pursue any defendant it chooses at its own whim, that can accept or
| reject payoffs on the order of $3,000 to $7,000 in exchange for not
| prosecuting the tickets, and that pockets for itself all payoffs and fines.
| Imagine that almost every single one of these fines goes uncontested,
| regardless of whether they have merit, because the individuals being fined
| have limited financial resources and little idea of whether they can prevail
| in a federal courtroom.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/05/riaa-fines-not-so-fine.html
Record Labels Attempt To Stretch Pirate Bay Ruling Rejected For Now
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| It increased interest in the site and the political movement behind it. And
| it exposed a potentially biased judge. At some point, you have to wonder if
| the recording industry would have been better off just letting the obscure
| (at the time) Swedish site continue living in obscurity, rather than
| generating all sorts of attention by trying to get it shut down.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090526/0132105006.shtml
Related:
RIAA Sued For Racketeering Yet Again
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| A few people have filed lawsuits against the RIAA for racketeering in the
| past, though these charges have always been dismissed. In one such case,
| where the filed charges were dismissed over the summer, new claims were filed
| again charging the RIAA with racketeering for extortion, mail fraud and wire
| fraud in its ongoing efforts involving weakly supported threats against
| alleged file sharers demanding money to avoid being sued.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081121/1203512916.shtml
An Oregon Woman's Lawsuit against the RIAA, Alleging Racketeering and Malicious
Prosecution
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| however, that the RIAA is, at a minimum, very foolish to press suits
| for purported file-sharing against unlikely defendants like Andersen -
| who alleges that she came forward with solid proof of her innocence.
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http://writ.news.findlaw.com/ramasastry/20070628.html
Internet radio strikes deal with music Mafiaa
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| Previously, online radio stations would pay $0.000768 for each copyrighted
| tune they played, but in 2007 the US Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) tried to
| increase that figure by up to 1,200 per cent, which sent many a well-loved
| wibblecaster scurrying for the hills.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/24/internet-radio-strikes-deal
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