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uhoh
Jun 19, 2009, 3:02 PM
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Her true crime is her poor taste in music.
$1.9 million is a ridiculous fine given that the original fine was $220,000 for the same crime.
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wjca
Jun 19, 2009, 3:25 PM
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The real crime here is that the RIAA all but actually wrote the legislation, which is unbelievably stiff and one sided. The maximum fine is actually $150,000 per song. She was only hit with $80,000 per song. Stupid ass jury for hitting her with those kind of damages.
The woman was only prosecuted for 24 songs, when she was tied to something like 17,000. So imagine if they had prosecuted her for all 17,000 songs and the jury was stupid enough to hit her with the maximum fine...$2,550,000,000. That's right, $2.55 Trillion. That's enough for me as a defendant to laugh uncontrollably at the jury and call them out as the morons they are right there in open court.
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reno
Jun 19, 2009, 3:55 PM
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wjca wrote: The woman was only prosecuted for 24 songs, when she was tied to something like 17,000. So imagine if they had prosecuted her for all 17,000 songs and the jury was stupid enough to hit her with the maximum fine...$2,550,000,000. That's right, $2.55 Trillion. That's enough for me as a defendant to laugh uncontrollably at the jury and call them out as the morons they are right there in open court.
Uh, did you mean $2.55 Billion?
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charley
Jun 19, 2009, 3:58 PM
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reno wrote: wjca wrote: The woman was only prosecuted for 24 songs, when she was tied to something like 17,000. So imagine if they had prosecuted her for all 17,000 songs and the jury was stupid enough to hit her with the maximum fine...$2,550,000,000. That's right, $2.55 Trillion. That's enough for me as a defendant to laugh uncontrollably at the jury and call them out as the morons they are right there in open court. Uh, did you mean $2.55 Billion?
What's the diff?
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macherry
Jun 19, 2009, 3:59 PM
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charley wrote: reno wrote: wjca wrote: The woman was only prosecuted for 24 songs, when she was tied to something like 17,000. So imagine if they had prosecuted her for all 17,000 songs and the jury was stupid enough to hit her with the maximum fine...$2,550,000,000. That's right, $2.55 Trillion. That's enough for me as a defendant to laugh uncontrollably at the jury and call them out as the morons they are right there in open court. Uh, did you mean $2.55 Billion? What's the diff?
at that point, not much
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wjca
Jun 19, 2009, 4:16 PM
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reno wrote: wjca wrote: The woman was only prosecuted for 24 songs, when she was tied to something like 17,000. So imagine if they had prosecuted her for all 17,000 songs and the jury was stupid enough to hit her with the maximum fine...$2,550,000,000. That's right, $2.55 Trillion. That's enough for me as a defendant to laugh uncontrollably at the jury and call them out as the morons they are right there in open court. Uh, did you mean $2.55 Billion?
Yes. Thank you for correcting me Captain Math. But at the point, Ma is right, there isn't much difference. It could have been $2.5 Brazillion.
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reno
Jun 19, 2009, 4:22 PM
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wjca wrote: reno wrote: wjca wrote: The woman was only prosecuted for 24 songs, when she was tied to something like 17,000. So imagine if they had prosecuted her for all 17,000 songs and the jury was stupid enough to hit her with the maximum fine...$2,550,000,000. That's right, $2.55 Trillion. That's enough for me as a defendant to laugh uncontrollably at the jury and call them out as the morons they are right there in open court. Uh, did you mean $2.55 Billion? Yes. Thank you for correcting me Captain Math. But at the point, Ma is right, there isn't much difference. It could have been $2.5 Brazillion.
Hey, didn't mean no offense. Just wasn't sure if I was misreading a zero or what...
One hundred bajillion dollars!
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bill413
Jun 19, 2009, 4:48 PM
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charley wrote: reno wrote: wjca wrote: The woman was only prosecuted for 24 songs, when she was tied to something like 17,000. So imagine if they had prosecuted her for all 17,000 songs and the jury was stupid enough to hit her with the maximum fine...$2,550,000,000. That's right, $2.55 Trillion. That's enough for me as a defendant to laugh uncontrollably at the jury and call them out as the morons they are right there in open court. Uh, did you mean $2.55 Billion? What's the diff? 
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fxgranite
Jun 19, 2009, 11:56 PM
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Why did the RIAA single her out? Of the brazillions of people downloading the music why make an example out of her?
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acorneau
Jun 22, 2009, 4:41 PM
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fxgranite wrote: Why did the RIAA single her out? Of the brazillions of people downloading the music why make an example out of her?
It's not just people from Brazil, ya know!
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USnavy
Oct 30, 2010, 1:54 AM
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This shows how incompetent the average juror is. Yea let’s fine a working class mother of four $1.9 mill. To all intents and purposes they mind as well fine her $750 trillion, it’s all the same as they will never see a fraction of that. They probably won’t even see the $80k fine for one song. I guess the jury isn’t up to par on their eighth amendment right.
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spikeddem
Oct 30, 2010, 2:26 AM
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USnavy wrote: This shows how incompetent the average juror is. Yea let’s fine a working class mother of four $1.9 mill. To all intents and purposes they mind as well fine her $750 trillion, it’s all the same as they will never see a fraction of that. They probably won’t even see the $80k fine for one song. I guess the jury isn’t up to par on their eighth amendment right.
Searching on the knob for information about illegally downloading music again?
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USnavy
Oct 30, 2010, 2:40 AM
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spikeddem wrote: USnavy wrote: This shows how incompetent the average juror is. Yea let’s fine a working class mother of four $1.9 mill. To all intents and purposes they mind as well fine her $750 trillion, it’s all the same as they will never see a fraction of that. They probably won’t even see the $80k fine for one song. I guess the jury isn’t up to par on their eighth amendment right. Searching on the knob for information about illegally downloading music again?
Actually I typed in Michael Davis in the search and this thread came up for some reason. 
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