Students Accused of Piracy
Dawn C. Chmielewski,
San Jose Mercury News,
Apr 04, 2003
No, these students were not accused of seizing a vessel by force. They are accused of sharing files without obtaining permission from copyright holders. There is (though you would never know it) a difference. At $150,000 per song, the recording industry is looking for billions from each of the four students against whom they have filed complaints. Yes, I know it sounds like a line from an Austin Powers script("... you will pay me one hundred billion dollars..."). And it would be as laughable, were these claims not filed in real courts. I mean, what student has a billion dollars? The sad irony? The recording industry may cause these students no end of grief, and in the process it may alienate even more potential music fans, but these prosecutions won't even slow the sharing of music online.
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