yodelingtheresa.com » RIAA http://www.yodelingtheresa.com Music You Can Yodel Along To Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:43:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 File Sharing Case In Boston http://www.yodelingtheresa.com/file-sharing-case-in-boston-27 http://www.yodelingtheresa.com/file-sharing-case-in-boston-27#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:20:39 +0000 Theresa http://www.yodelingtheresa.com/?p=27 The trial has started in America of a 25 year old man being sued for £2.7M for illegally sharing files. The intriguing part of this tale however was the opening statement of the defendant, he claimed that when the music industry went digital it meant they were unable to hold onto their songs. The defendant claimed he was just doing what kids do!

To comment on this from a personal point of view i believe it is a complete Farce! The guy was getting sued over downloading 5 songs 5 years ago! when he argued the fine he was originally given it was upped to 30 songs. He was caught after using file sharing website Kazoo.

The reason i find all this ridiculous is how small scale the guy was downloading at, 30 songs is nothing compared to the 100’s of songs a day some people will be downloading. Its not uncommon to find downloads available in which you have the top 40 albums and singles. The RIAA are throwing their weight around with very little fish. Do they think people will stop downloading music after all this? I don’t think they will. I don’t think the music industry will ever win their fight against people sharing music, As it has been said before, they are going to have to radically rethink how they sell their music. Personally i still don’t think music is cheap enough.

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