another BIG WIN for RIAA

[stoney]

NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - The recording industry has won a major fight in its effort to stop illegal music downloading with a U.S. jury decision to impose $222,000 damages against a Minnesota woman who used a Web service to share music.


more here as taken from Yahoo

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071005/...Nnlj.wtBwE1vAI

[keith]

As a parent, I've deleted file sharing programs from my kids computers more than once.

This story is scary for any parent responsible to the tune of hundreds or thousands of dollars per song in damages for stuff their kid(s) might download, potentially rolling up a bill greater than the value of the house we live in during one evening of downloading a file-sharing program and music.

Regards,
Keith

[keith]

From the following article,

In the past four years, the RIAA has sued more than 20,000 people on allegations of copyright infringement. Two weeks ago, the association won a $222,000 judgment in the first such case to go to trial.

Now they want to go after UseNet!

See RIAA Sues Usenet, Decries it as 'Brazen Outlaw'
at http://www.wired.com/politics/law/ne...10/riaa_usenet

Regards,
Keith

[stoney]

Originally Posted by keith

As a parent, I've deleted file sharing programs from my kids computers more than once.

This story is scary for any parent responsible to the tune of hundreds or thousands of dollars per song in damages for stuff their kid(s) might download, potentially rolling up a bill greater than the value of the house we live in during one evening of downloading a file-sharing program and music.

Regards,
Keith

Teens sometimes do not understand the ramifications of their actions or understand the why P2P can be very dangerious. I suggest you do a google search on P2P clients and inform your teen that these clients(names) could mean trouble.
I also suggest that you get a usb external harddrive to store all digital music files and unplug it when on the internet and unplug the internet when using the music harddrive. NONE CAN ACCUSE YOU OF SHARING FILES. You might even want to invest in a firewall so hackers can not secretly store files on your system. This whole thing makes you wonder, what is next?
If you can not make a profit one way sue your customers for incresed profits.

Originally Posted by keith

From the following article,

In the past four years, the RIAA has sued more than 20,000 people on allegations of copyright infringement. Two weeks ago, the association won a $222,000 judgment in the first such case to go to trial.

Now they want to go after UseNet!

See RIAA Sues Usenet, Decries it as 'Brazen Outlaw'
at http://www.wired.com/politics/law/ne...10/riaa_usenet

Regards,
Keith

UseNet, there is a whole lot scarrier stuff out than music files. It's enough to make you sick, NEVER ALLOW A TEEN ON THE NEWSGROUPS, NEVER!!!!!!!