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1 posted on 03/23/2009 6:02:54 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

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2 posted on 03/23/2009 6:04:22 PM PDT by pnh102 (Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)

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3 posted on 03/23/2009 6:04:44 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" Â—Patrick Henry)

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Of course none of the cited cases dealt with the ratios sought by the RIAA: 2,100 to 425,000 times the actual damages for an MP3 file.

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5 posted on 03/23/2009 7:05:34 PM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)

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Precedent and common sense have no place in the new Obama dictatorship. Get used to it. Eric Holder is Obama’s hitman on the Constitution.

6 posted on 03/23/2009 7:15:19 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

To: Free ThinkerNY

These people stealing intellectual property, whether kids or not, whether culturally correct or not, should be tried on criminal charges and if convicted, imprisoned.

7 posted on 03/23/2009 7:19:32 PM PDT by Mariner

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Ping for tech/drm related

9 posted on 03/23/2009 9:14:36 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)

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11 posted on 03/24/2009 5:23:37 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)

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I’m on the fence here. First, I have no doubt Obama’s administration will follow the orders of the copyright cartel for any issues involving copyright. That’s pretty much a given.

But I am for high potential statutory damages because they serve two valid purposes.

The first is for copyright holders when they don’t know how many copies of their works have been distributed without permission. What do you do if a work is worth $1, and someone has distributed some unknown amount between 1 and 200,000 copies? You can’t put actual damages on that. So the court system gets to decide how much of the statutory damages to award up to an amount that may provide fair compensation.

Second is for developers of free software. Your software has a sale price of $0. So when Big Company starts distributing it without complying with your favorite free software license, what are you to do? Ask for damages? What damages? You would have recieved $0 for sales anyway. Statutory damages give the developer more leverage against Big Company infringing on his copyrights.

14 posted on 03/24/2009 6:49:05 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat (Sacred cows make the best hamburger.)

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16 posted on 03/24/2009 10:44:31 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("I certainly hope he (Bush) doesnÂ’t succeed" - Democratic strategist James Carville 9-11-2001)

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17 posted on 03/24/2009 10:45:14 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("I certainly hope he (Bush) doesnÂ’t succeed" - Democratic strategist James Carville 9-11-2001)

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way to go college studeint ROOKIES!

suckers.

18 posted on 03/24/2009 10:46:57 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)

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Ha, ha. All the libs who said that the RIAA only got away with their shenanigans because they were in bed with the Bush administration just got pwnd.

19 posted on 03/24/2009 10:49:13 AM PDT by MediaMole

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