Boston University Graduate Student Fined $675 000 for Downloading Music Illegally
This is the world we live in today:
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…In the United States of America, if you SHARE music files you didn’t purchase, you are a criminal. If you are a poor-ass graduate student, you could get fined $675 000 for downloading 30 songs (specifically), and having a sordid history of such downloading. Because of this evil student, some record company executives couldn’t afford their third summer home in the tropics! What a bastard! It’s a good thing the companies are bankrupting him and nailing him with a fine he will most likely never be able to pay back, not to mention giving him a criminal record.
…That’s how the world works ladies and gentlemen. Blending US/Canadian laws a bit, you can walk into a store and steal $4,999 worth of stuff, get charged for theft under $5000 and do some community service. Or, you can share some songs digitally and get find hundreds of thousands, or even, like another dangerous youth, millions of dollars. You can throw away billions of dollars digitally as a company executive and be bailed out by the government, or you can ‘steal’ $30 worth of music and be fined $675 000.
…It’s a good thing there are lots of mindless pop culture zombies out there to buy all the crappy music record companies pump out their ass, or we’d never have such wonders as Britney Spears, the Black Eyed Peas, and the Jonas Brothers!
…File-SHARING is a threat to the system because it involves free, non-monetary exchange with little to no profit. File-Sharing does not damage local artists, who are supported by people going to their shows and the fact that their music is very hard to get online anyway; in fact, many artists support file-sharing as a promotional tool. If everyone file-shared for free, the music industry would – if unable to shut down the internet, or have it totally controlled – go out of business. In which case, all the bands who like to play for the music and not the money would still be famous through file-sharing, would still have people pay to see them live, and would have no problems getting bookings etc. I support local music, and many others do to.
Why did file-sharing come to be?
- The internet facilitates it
- People didn’t like buying entire CDs just to hear a few songs
- Many people are poor or do not want 20% of their income going to music purchases
- Many people realize what fat greedy fucks record companies and manufactured artists are, even if some of them make great music
- File-Sharing is FREEDOM UNCONSTRAINED BY ECONOMIC SHACKLES. People like their freedom.
…File-sharing doesn’t hurt computer sales, internet provider profits, local artists, promotion of all artists, or even, according to many, general profit margins. Major record labels are stupid backward corporate leech scum-sucking fucktards (simply a truism).
…Should you download music illegally? I would never dream of it, personally, as I fully respect and support the well-intentioned and righteous laws of our proud god-fearing nations, but, the choice is up to you…
Hilarious things to think about: How digital music is 1s and 0s on a harddrive and in wires. How digital content can be created or destroyed so easily, such as ‘money,’ which is literally created by banks out of thin air. What constitutes possession? When is it your property, what’s the difference between streaming and storing locally? Etc.
