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To: nickcarraway

I remember not too many years back when there were
news articles about people being hit with huge fines
because they had downloaded some songs off the internet.
Whatever happened to all of that?
You just never hear about it anymore.


7 posted on 02/03/2020 8:00:07 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life)
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To: Repeal The 17th

I don’t think any of those cases panned out in court. I remember one was a cheerleading coach, and they couldn’t prove she was the downloader.


12 posted on 02/03/2020 8:03:06 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Repeal The 17th

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/119254850/kim-dotcom-fails-in-supreme-court-appeal-ordered-to-pay-25k-to-gcsb

Kim DotCom still fighting extradition.


28 posted on 02/03/2020 8:36:27 PM PST by ameribbean expat (Socialism is like a nude beach - - sounds great til you actually get there. -- David Burge.)
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To: Repeal The 17th
li>Whatever happened to all of that?
You just never hear about it anymore.

Steve Jobs negotiated a universal digital music license.

42 posted on 02/03/2020 11:02:07 PM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Yeah -they had Napster and other file sharing apps - I think that the making the files available was the biggest “sin”. They never seemed to mention Newsgroups which have so much music available that you could fill up multiple large hard drives with it ...


43 posted on 02/04/2020 4:02:59 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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