How The RIAA Took My Vintage Mustang

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How bad would this suck?

When Shane Comegys was 16 he loved two things: his 1970 Mustang and illegally downloaded music. Given the choice, he'd happily take the car and delete the music, but the RIAA's lawyers didn't give him a choice. They took both.
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I would still like to know how a song is worth up to 750$ each when they retail for what a 1$ or so?
 
You know the old saying:

"Don't do the crime if you aren't prepaired to do the time."

He did something illegal. He paid for it. Lesson learned.

I still hate the RIAA however.
 
He downloaded 1,940 songs illegally and he is surprised? :confused:

While I have a general disdain for the riaa and mpaa and consider them criminal organizations, that does not justify his actions. Sorry if my level of sympathy for the guy hovers somewhere around or below zero.
 
Before going to trial he should have sold the car to a family member for $1.00.
 
I don't care if he was downloading music, everyone fucking downloads music at one point or another whether they admit to it or not. It's not like he was selling pirated material.

Fuck the RIAA. This is ridiculous, and the bullshit "settle" tactics they use to blackmail people out of their money should be illegal.
 
I dunno 1940 at $4250? that's just over 2 bucks a song, no pun... a steal! Sure you can get them for 99 cents now but he was using Kazaa :D
 
sfsuphysics said:
I dunno 1940 at $4250? that's just over 2 bucks a song, no pun... a steal! Sure you can get them for 99 cents now but he was using Kazaa :D
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Yea that was the other point I meant to make. In this particular instance (Rare as most are outright exploitation), the settlement offer was more then fair.
 
what I personally love is the quote
Comegys and his family didn't have much of a choice. They'd seen what happened to other RIAA targets like Matt Chow who went up against the FBI's Cyber Crime division because of his involvement in what they called a "file-sharing ring." Chow ended up winning the case, but says the "personal expense for lawyers, travel arrangements and research was in the neighborhood of two V8 Audi R8s."
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In other words, it's more expensive to fight it so you might as well just pay up. This is extortion, but ironically most people are in fact guilty and they know this... it's a target rich environment, and the punishment does not fit the crime... Quite frankly you see people commit much worse crimes and get probation or counseling...
 
Lets settle this once and for all...

Copyright violation is not the same as theft in any way or form.

You could download a million songs, you still would not be stealing. You would be guilty of copyright violation, which is not a criminal offense.
 
Zarathustra[H];1036313477 said:
Lets settle this once and for all...

Copyright violation is not the same as theft in any way or form.

You could download a million songs, you still would not be stealing. You would be guilty of copyright violation, which is not a criminal offense.
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Agreed.

Now lets sell all our equipment and houses and pay off the right people. It's the only way things make "legal" sense.
 
True said:
You wouldn't download a car
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i dont get it, ive seen people sued, they ignored everything, didnt show up to court, and nothing ever happened to them
 
For those curious about copyright infringement read the link...For those wondering/speaking out of their arse about the criminal aspect, read section 506.

Copyright Infringement

Have a good day.
 
while I do feel bad for him about the car, that's the chance that you take when you download music and movies these days.

I can't view the link here, but if he's really getting hit for $2.00 a song, the judgement sounds pretty reasonable to me. I don't support the RIAA/MPAA or their tactics, but this is much much much better than many others have had it lately.
 
I see a date on the letters of 2006. Nothing newer and exciting has happened since then?
 
make the computer harddrive disappear plug in a wireless AP, i guess the next door neighbor downloaded the music bootlegging my internet??? dont know what to tell you. wasnt me
 
The guy must have had at least 8 gigs worth of music on his hard drive. Like someone else said, at $2 a song, there's nothing to complain. RIAA sucks balls, but that's a pretty fair settlement.

Let me know when they want hundreds of dollars per song. Then we could complain.
 
File sharing is one of those victimless crimes (IMO). Nobody get's hurt, yet the fines punishment is on par or worse than drug charges or assault charges.
 
"You wouldn't download a car."

If I could download a Lamborghini, you bet your sweet ass I would. Get on that, Apple.
 
Well i hate that he got busted. We are all of downloading something that breaks the copyright infringement law. I would have never sold a classic car for $2,500. That was his stupid mistake. He could have easily gotten more than that eventually. Oh well, he should easily be able to buy a new car with the money he saved from that gas hog :D
 
Zarathustra[H];1036313477 said:
Lets settle this once and for all...

Copyright violation is not the same as theft in any way or form.

You could download a million songs, you still would not be stealing. You would be guilty of copyright violation, which is not a criminal offense.
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In that case is stealing cable tv theft? I mean if everyone pluged their drops into taps its not taking anything physcial its just RF. So if people download music might as well not pay for cable tv on the same moral ground
 
d50man said:
shoulda had it in his mothers name...
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As was pointed out to the others, read the article, he had to sale the car to get the money to settle with them out of court.


I don't feel bad for those people. I dont' like the RIAA, or MPAA, but i don't see anything wrong with them wanting to defend their copyrights. By now people know this is going to happen so they have no excuse.

If you want music go buy the cds, signup for some online music radio thing like last.fm or pay $10 - $15 a month and get unlimited music from one of the many subscription based services.

And for those that claim that music today sucks and they aren't going to pay for it, if it sucks then why are you listening to it and/or downloading it?

There is no reason for anyone to download music like this unless they truely want to get busted and pay a crapload of money.
 
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