WOMAN FINED $220,000 FOR UPLOADING SONGS

Jammie Thomas, the woman in the pic, was fined $220,000 for sharing 24 music files. That's $9166 some dollars, I did it in my head forgive me if it's wrong. Thomas has said that she was wrongfully targeted by SafeNet.


And if that is not enough for the single mother to handle, she has to pay about $60,000 for lawyer fees, because instead of settling like the other 26,000 people that are being sued by record companies, she decided to take it court.


The network in question Kazaa. From what was reported Thomas has said that she didnt' do it, and her lawyer said there's no way to prove otherwise. However the jury didn't buy it, and found her guilty of copyright infringement. Oh and get this, the jury however did believe that she didn't wilfully do it, or do it with the intent of doing wrong, because if they did, they could have charged her with $150,000 per song which would have brought her to $3,600,000.


First off what the heck! You can't get kazaa, so you go after the people. Some of the songs she downloaded, like Bills Bills Bills from Destiny's child is a released song, it's on every video sharing website there is, are they going to sue for that too. So it's okay when people sing your songs and show your videos when you need promotion, but it's not okay when it is a hit. Piracy is wrong, it's like ripping off people's work, but if you buy the album anyway, what does it matter, I remember all those piracy campaigns and commericals saying don't steal the music, because it's like stealing our money. Last time I checked Kanye West is still a very downloaded artist, and he went platnium in like 8 days, or by week 2, and 50 went gold in the first week. what was the lyric by mary J Blige... "730,000 first week of my sales. The music industry is not in trouble stop pretending like you are, and it's not people's fault if the record company does not pay it's artist correctly, Dixie Chicks, N'sync, TLC, and the other groups. Oh and don't you hate it when you see new acts on MTV Cribs talking about "this is my house" When you know it's not their house... Omarion. I was reading another article today about radiohead, and it [one fan posted in a blog; “I will gladly pay $20 knowing the artist will get the money,”] read it here (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article2602597.ece)

ANYWHAT, this is a shame, you're just mad that you can't take down peergroups so you lash out on consumers, I know one thing it will probably be awhile before that woman buys another CD, or downloads anything from itunes again.