MPAA and RIAA Urge Government to Keep High Fines

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I think most of us believe the penalties for copyright infringement should fit the crime. $150,000 per shared file should be reserved for crooks that are sharing thousands of files for profit. Ruining a college student's life with a $675,000 judgment for 30 songs is just wrong.

This summer the U.S. Government’s Internet Policy Task Force published a Green Paper signaling various copyright issues that need to be addressed. Among other things, the group proposed a “recalibration” of penalties for file-sharers, which currently reach $150,000 per shared file. The MPAA and RIAA, among others, have now responded to this suggestion, stating that the current punishments are proportional, and needed to deter others from file-sharing and related offenses.
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I'd argue that fining someone $1000 is just as much of a deterrent. Not many people would be happy to lose $1000. The $150,000 per file is ridiculous. I might as well sue for $1,000,000 if a movie I paid for sucks.
 
Yeah how about download 3 things illegal and put them in prison , life sentence, that solves everything.
Since the amount of money does not scare them maybe the death penalty.

Go liberal America go :)
 
Every 99 cents RIAA loses costs them millions...

...in campaign contributions to make sure that a file sharer pays more in fines and goes to prison longer than a multimillion dollar stock scammer.
 
For me the thing is this. The quality of movies and music is going down A LOT. In the 90's I could buy a CD and enjoy the entire thing, now I'm lucky if I get a few songs. I'll just listen to it on youtube and save myself a couple bucks.

They rehash old movies ad nauseam, they've really ran out of ideas. And the thing is this....If you couldn't pirate the movies and music no ones going to just start paying for it. They'll deal without. They aren't really losing any money IMHO.
 
hasn't this whole thing gone on long enough?

doing something the same way over and over, expecting different results.
 
Sp33dFr33k said:
I'd argue that fining someone $1000 is just as much of a deterrent. Not many people would be happy to lose $1000. The $150,000 per file is ridiculous. I might as well sue for $1,000,000 if a movie I paid for sucks.
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And the thing is the MAFIAA will be more likely to get those fines if it's $1000. You get slapped with $10k in fines you can handle that over your lifetime without much anguish, you get hit with $250k in fines, you're not paying that off. Even if you own a house because they can't take your home in lawsuits like this.
 
Dear US Government.

Set the fines to whatever you want just make sure that everyone gets the same fine. The next time Sony puts a rootkit containing copyright infringing code they deserve the same fine for each of the 20 million CDs produced. Sony's actual fine would be like me giving them the 12 year old dot-matrix printer I had in my garage.

To be honest the most equally fair fine for copyright would be something like $1 trillion dollars per item. Totally unfair but equally unfair to everyone. Anything else would be enshrining a class-based system favoring corporations and individuals with wealth.
 
Isn't it grand when you are a corporation in a corporatocracy. You can literally pay for your own laws to be written.
 
I'm just going to have to make sure I download even more illegal stuff. I need to make sure I get my moneys worth in case I get caught.
 
College student is one thing. Just declare bankruptcy. By the time you want to buy a house it's gone.

How about somebody with a family, a mortgage but house 25% payed off and needing to save for retirement at some point? Maybe it's better the kids don't grow up with them, right?
 
Someone should take down riaa and mpaa, aren't USA citizen proud of their freedom and do revolution one more to protect their freedom once more?
 
It's scray how far Americans have allowed their government to descend. I remember telling people they'd have searches at the airports and they were like you're an insane conspiracy person.
 
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