This story is over a single mom that is being sued by the recording industry for downloading songs. The Article says that the woman had downloaded thousands of songs on the website Kazaa. A jury awarded the recording companies 1.5million in damages. The woman is fighting for another appeal and doesn’t plan to give the recording companies any money whatsoever.
I could not believe that the jury would find that her downloads were worth 1.5million dollars. I can’t imagine how this is at all possible. The songs that she downloaded could not have ever been worth anywhere near that much. She did not steal the rights to those songs she just downloaded them to listen too. If she was turning them into CD’s and selling them that is one thing. I can’t imagine that she really hurt the industries sells that bad. The fact of the matter is that the recording industries need to get with the times and find a better way to market their products. The age of Albums, tapes, and CD’s is dead. Besides the fact that a little over ten years ago we were doing basically the same thing but with tapes. I remember sitting up at night with my finger on the record button waiting for my favorite songs to come on. The only difference here is that you leave evidence when you download these songs online. It shouldn’t be allowed in court. The record companies are just trying to save a dying industry. They are trying to make money wherever possible look at radio. Radio has always been the best thing for recording industries; it got their artists to the people’s ears so that they could hear them, like them, and go out and buy their albums. Now the recording industry is attacking radio also. They are trying to charge these “not for profit” radio companies for playing their songs. This is obviously an industry full of a bunch of fat head executives’ that are trying to make whatever money they can.
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