RIAA wants to increase damages by 10x

Robert Hallock 30 Jan, 2008 at 2:35pm ET Article published in Tech

Congress is currently evaluating a bill known as PRO-IP, which is another lovely piece of corporate shenanigans from the same gentle giants that gave us the DMCA. The most shocking piece of the bill inflates the per-song statutory damages claimable by the RIAA from $150,000 to $1.5 million. You know, just because.

We all agree that piracy is piracy, but whatever happened to the punishment fitting the crime? $16 is srs business.

Comments

30 Jan 2008 ~ 3:33pm Zuntar D1ck$.
30 Jan 2008 ~ 3:41pm Kwitko And the artist will see .000000000001% of that.
30 Jan 2008 ~ 3:47pm Thelemech They can go F.Themselves 10x.
30 Jan 2008 ~ 3:58pm Leonardo Before I read this thread, I just read the title. My thought at the time was, well that sounds like something congress would do - if a program fails, just use the same plan and make it more forceful or throw more money at it. I opened the thread and my cynicism was validated.
30 Jan 2008 ~ 5:24pm Your-Amish-Daddy God I can't wait until I turn 35 and run for president.
30 Jan 2008 ~ 5:36pm Winfrey RIAA-Really Interested in being Assholes to Americans

So if I pirate some song @ $1.00 retail I am now responsible for $10.00 worth of damage?

wtf
30 Jan 2008 ~ 5:40pm Thrax No, you're now responsible for $1.5 million in damages. Per song.
30 Jan 2008 ~ 6:03pm Winfrey ah well thats more fair.
30 Jan 2008 ~ 6:08pm mas0n The RIAA and all artists affiliated with them are putting the nails in their own coffin. Hell, I was already boycotting all artists under the RIAA umbrella. This just makes me that much happier about it.
31 Jan 2008 ~ 4:01pm TiberiusLazarus

FreeC8675 wrote:

RIAA-Really Interested in being Assholes to Americans

So if I pirate some song @ $1.00 retail I am now responsible for $10.00 worth of damage?

wtf

I could actually see this making sense. Say if you download a song and then share it on a P2P, you should be responsible for the retail cost of it. So if you download a song that costs $1 and you share it with 20 people, $21 sounds fair to me. Or make it 10x in that sense, so $210. But no the RIAA wants $1.5 million??
31 Jan 2008 ~ 7:16pm mas0n us: Hey RIAA, evolve or die.

RIAA: Um, we choose death.

us: alright then
31 Jan 2008 ~ 10:30pm yagga Hey hey! I think we all need to take a breather and just root for the RIAA, okay? If we just support their bloated air filled heads a whole heck of a lot, well maybe if just one person supports them, then they will teh splode!

I will do my part proud: You know, every one of us is evil, except the RIAA corps.

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poop!
1 Feb 2008 ~ 1:22am RWB I keep hearing about the RIAA digging their own graves, but it seems they are just getting more sway.