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Title: Squeezing blood out of a turnip Post by: gleek on August 03, 2009, 09:16:27 AM Link (http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/local_wpri_jury_awards_675_thousand_in_music_downloading_case20090803bcm)
Lars Ulrich approves. Title: Re: Squeezing blood out of a turnip Post by: stroh on August 03, 2009, 09:23:02 AM I think in those cases that one should be able to argue the value of the music. My guess is the jury would agree that that particular music wasn't worth giving away, let alone paying for. .99 cents a pop for that *feces*? I wouldn't take it is a free ringtone download.
"Your Honor, we would like to play some of Aske's music to the jury before they decide what the value of those downloads would have been." Case dismissed. Title: Re: Squeezing blood out of a turnip Post by: gleek on August 03, 2009, 09:23:52 AM LMAO
Title: Re: Squeezing blood out of a turnip Post by: Fuzzy on August 03, 2009, 09:29:55 AM Sorry gleek.....this is squeezing blood out of a turnip: ;)
http://www.startribune.com/local/48287937.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU Quote A 32-year-old woman from Brainerd, Minn., owes $1.92 million in damages to recording companies for downloading their music, a federal jury in Minneapolis decided Thursday. That amounts to $80,000 a song for the 24 songs Jammie Thomas-Rasset was accused of downloading. The damages are eight times more than Thomas-Rasset, a mother of four, was ordered to pay the first time she faced six record companies in court on claims that she downloaded more than 1,700 songs. The judge granted a retrial after deciding that he had wrongly instructed the jury. "The only thing I can say is, 'Good luck getting it from me,'" said Thomas-Rasset, who looked tearful immediately after hearing of the decision, but then appeared resolute. Title: Re: Squeezing blood out of a turnip Post by: gleek on August 03, 2009, 09:37:36 AM Marge Gunderson surrenders.
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