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Originally Posted by BeautifulBurnout
And when was the last time that someone got off with a fine for being convicted of armed robbery? Or when was the last time someone was sentenced to 10 years incarceration for downloading music? Get real.
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But this is still the law. The point is that the RIAA is just kind of pulling these numbers out of their asses to intimidate poor college students into settling. None of us have said that we "have" to get the music for free. In fact we are always discussing the best ways to support the band. That's why I bought all the RiverRuns and will probably buy them all in the future, but if they release a disc on a major I'm much less inclined to want to buy it. I guess it's all kind of my principles, the links that Jan came up with pretty much explains why. It's not "justification" - I'm happy paying money for a recording, but if the money goes toward suing students like me, I'm much less so. Hence why I hardly do it anymore.