#Shaun said, June 20, 2009, 07:56:02 amApply that to all the roms and manga you've illegally acquired. Anyway $80,000+ a song is complete horseshit regardless of her 'illegal activity.'You could easily call that payback, after all I create software and piracy makes my salary much lower than it should be.
Since files aren't software, it's a lot harder to protect them. The damages are too high, but I still think there should be some deterrent somewhere somehow.Music quality nowadays seems low, so I think it is legitimate to download, try and see if you will buy... it's inadequate to listen to 30 second, low quality samples of each song to get a feel for someone's music. And not being able to purchase lossless digital audio is complete bullshit.
The reason they shouldn't win this is, because there is no prof that she didn't own the songs at one time. I know, i could argue that if I was caught downloading Starwars, that I had already bought the copyrighted material on VHS and threw it away. The copyright isn't the form of its delivery. They would have no way of arguing otherwise.
