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| Thread ID: 129057 | 2013-01-30 21:27:00 | First person fined under copyright laws | Iantech (16386) | PC World Chat |
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| 1325704 | 2013-01-30 21:27:00 | A woman has been fined more than $600 for illegally downloading music in the first successful case under the new anti-piracy law. The Copyright Amendment Act says anyone who receives three warnings for pirating music can be fined up to 15-thousand dollars. The woman was twice warned for downloading Man Down by Rihanna, and once for downloading Tonight Tonight by Hot Chelle Rae. She claimed she did not know it was illegal to download the first song and that no one in her house downloaded the second. The Copyright Tribunal found in favour of the Recording Industry Association and fined the woman $6.57 cents for the two songs. It added $360 as a deterrent and $250 to cover some of the association's costs. Recording Industry Association managing director Chris Caddick says the ruling sends a clear message that illegal downloading has consequences. Mr Caddick says 11 other cases are before the Copyright Tribunal and 6000 warning notices have been sent out. Copyright © 2013, Radio New Zealand lol, oh dear what a joke. |
Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1325705 | 2013-01-30 21:28:00 | Not a heavy fine. | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1325706 | 2013-01-30 21:30:00 | We had a bit of a chat in the PC World offices and considered that a $600 fine is not really much of a deterrent. Okay, it will make some people think twice, but given one case taken to tribunal in over 12 months ... Yeah. It will be interesting to see how the other 11 in the works pan out. |
Zara Baxter (16260) | ||
| 1325707 | 2013-01-30 21:42:00 | Good, hopefully she will improve her music taste :D Really, the "dedicated" pirates or those in the know are not really going to be affected at all. It's only the idiots or the unaware. These days most people that I know get their songs off youtube (euch!!! if you're going to pirate, at least have some dignity and get good quality!) which can't really be detected by skynet. The whole system is a joke to me. |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1325708 | 2013-01-30 21:51:00 | ....Or, change your musical tastes and download freely (though donations are the ethical thing to do to keep the site going) from Jazz on Line, over 36,000 titles to choose from, from the good old days :) www.jazz-on-line.com |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1325709 | 2013-01-30 21:52:00 | Yes, but it's not about the 'dedicated pirates'. It is all about 'educating' the masses. And I also think $600 is a reasonable penalty. It's high enough to hurt, and act as a deterrent to casual downloaders (which is the "target market") and isn't completely ridiculous and counterproductive like the US judgements of millions against people who have no hope of ever paying it in their lifetimes. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1325710 | 2013-01-30 22:09:00 | Good, hopefully she will improve her music taste :D I lol'd! +1 First World Problems - "Got fined $6.57 per song... Could have paid $1.99 on iTunes" |
lordnoddy (3645) | ||
| 1325711 | 2013-01-30 22:14:00 | Yeah but 600 bucks can buy plenty of albums, approx 30 of them and if there is at least 1 decent song on each album (which is usually the case) then it works out at $20 per song... | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1325712 | 2013-01-30 22:33:00 | Three songs. They really went after the big boys. It will just encourage more people to make their own crappy tracks from youtube videos. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1325713 | 2013-01-30 23:37:00 | Well it seems the problem wasn't actually downloading the song, but rather reseeding it. So the lesson is to be a leech and not a seeder. | plod (107) | ||
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