or; nine thousand dollars a song?!?
News today is that there's a lady in Minnesota who finally stood up to the record companies' ridiculous and draconian copyright rules.
And what does she get for it?
220,000 dollars in fines. For 24 songs she supposedly downloaded.
Yeah, that's a little over 9,000 dollars a song.
Now, I understand that the record companies' goal was to make an example of the single mother of two, but she maintains her innocence - that she was neither involved in downloading or uploading music. And besides, 9,000 dollars a song? Seems a bit ridiculous.
But I only see this as making those of us who may or may not participate in file sharing becoming more brazen. I'm sure that more sites will become more ardent in their desires to stick up to the big corporations, like the Pirate Bay does so very, very well.
But nine thousand dollars a song is bullshit.
And that's all I have to say on the matter.
Radiohead has it right. Pie in the face of those fools.