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To: TChris
Judges should body-slam RIAA lawyers at every opportunity, forcing them to actually PROVE damages, for example, rather than theorize and estimate. At the worst, proven, actual damages should be limited to 3x market value (Or 3x about $1 per song), and punitive damages should be similar to shoplifting fines. She should be looking at $1000 - $2000 in damage, tops. Courts should stop being a perverse revenue stream for the RIAA.

Your argument isn't with the courts, it's with Congress, which wrote into the copyright law a provision for automatic damges for copyright infringement-- $200 per work infringed if done innocently, otherwise $750 per work. Those are minimums. It's not up to the courts.

75 posted on 03/04/2010 10:59:28 AM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian
Those are minimums. It's not up to the courts.

I stand corrected.

Another reason to loathe Congress.

85 posted on 03/04/2010 12:22:23 PM PST by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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