Comments on: Speechless

By: Andrew James

Andrew James — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:34:54 +0000

What an incredible waste of time. We should actually be really upset about this. Gov't time and money was spent on prosecution of this? What the hell for? Is this going to curb illegal downloading or pirating? I would bet money that this lady is sitting at home right now pondering on whether or not to download the latest “Seal” album. This did nothing but waste time and money and get me even more excited to steal product from the record company.

By: mike

mike — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:08:23 +0000

just testing Andrew’s theory out, ignore.

By: Andrew James

Andrew James — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:04:37 +0000

Test comment

By: Andrew_James

Andrew_James — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:36:10 +0000

Hey! Look at that. I'm actually signed in. Must've been a password issue.

By: mike rot

mike rot — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:29:48 +0000

if you can read this it works fine

By: Jandy

Jandy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:19:43 +0000

Did it work?

By: mike rot

mike rot — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:11:10 +0000

testing disqus

By: Jandy

Jandy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:08:25 +0000

To expand the dollar store argument – if you steal from the dollar store, you've stolen product that they then can't sell. Tangible loss. If you steal music by downloading, there's no tangible loss. There's potential loss of a purchase that you may or may not have made, as well as potential gain of purchases that you may make in the future (I've spent way more money on concerts and CDs of bands I found out about by downloading than I ever did before I started downloading).

By: Andrew James

Andrew James — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:44:39 +0000

I heard this on NPR this morning. The woman's quote as she left the courthouse was, “good luck getting [the money] from me.” Ha! I almost WANT to be charged for illegal dowloading music. I have so many things to say to the coke-sniffing record company execs it would be comical.

By: mike rot

mike rot — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:18:10 +0000

Is there a worse crime against humanity than downloading music? I think not.