Record industry sues 757 for file-sharing

Copyright-infringement lawsuits filed by RIAA against 757 people, bringing total suits filed by music industry to 14,800.

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[hadaso]

So, are they getting close to suing 0.01% of the users?

So, are they getting close to suing 0.01% of the users?

Anyway, in the past few weeks we heard some stories of success by people who did not settle with the RIAA. So perhaps now more people would stand up to them and eventually the cost of litigation for them would be too high.

[thedreaming]

getting out of hand

Even I must admit it's getting a little out of hand. Piracy has always existed in one form or another, but with the internet and easy to use programs everyone can be a pirate. It's not that people are pirating their intellectual property that's the problem, it's the number of people that are doing it, that's their problem.

If it was just a few guys trading cds back and forth, they could care less, but it's a few million people trading terrabytes worth of music, movies and programs back and forth. That's what's getting them upset.

I don't blame anyone for pirating. I've seen small little programs with huge price tags. I've browsed online music catalogs and find that even the most crappiest music has the highest price tag and if you simply download it, should you really pay retail price?

Question: are these civil suits or criminal?

Can the author clarify if these lawsuits are civil or criminal? Aren't there different implications for each scenario?

[jschrock1516]

these are civil suits

typically settled for legal costs ~$2-5K

the arts are loved....

its like sex..

stop music prostition!!

[sanjef]

In an ideal world...

...more popular movies would cost more at the box office than less popular ones. Same should go for music BUT there HAS to be a limit on how much the RIAA can get away with charging for a music download. And the main reason downloading tracks has become so popular? These one-hit-wonder bands only produce one good song! Very few quality albums are being produced any more. Pink Floyd's "The Wall" is an excellent example of an artist's work laid out in logical order and meant to be played from start to finish - like an on-stage musical.