RIAA Wants $1.5 Million Per CD Copied

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Not content with current statutory damages, the RIAA is pushing for higher damages for infringement, damages that would total $1.5 million for copying a CD with ten songs. It's all part of debate over the proposed PRO-IP Act. William Patry, a lawyer who wrote the seminal seven-volume reference on US copyright law, called it the most 'outrageously gluttonous IP bill ever introduced in the US.'"

$1.5 million?

[KublaiKhan]

I knew that 'going gold' meant a lot to an artist, and I knew the price of gold was high, but $1.5 million sounds just a little high...

Or is this just for the ones that go platinum?

Does the RIAA have a licensed proctologist?

[Steeltalon]

I ask because I want them to be safe. It has to be painful pulling garbage like this out of their asses.

heh

[Captain Splendid]

RIAA Wants $1.5 Million Per CD Copied

And I want a pony. Somehow, I think we're both going to be disappointed.

Re:Does the RIAA have a licensed proctologist?

[spun]

It has to be painful pulling garbage like this out of their asses.

Not when you're THAT big of an asshole. The RIAA could pull a dump truck out of their asses and not feel a thing.

Wrong decimal place?

[IronMagnus]

Maybe they ment $15

Walmart

[im_thatoneguy]

Fuck it. If they say I'm stealing it I'm just going to start "ripping" music from Walmart. The fines are cheaper and less signficant on a criminal record.

Obligatory Austin Powers Quote

[EEPROMS]

Mr Evil "I demand the sum... OF 1 MILLION DOLLARS."

Dollar worth less these days

[chris_mahan]

I hadn't realized the US dollar had lost that much value recently...

Never Gonna Happen

[cslax]

8th Amendment makes that completely impossible. Cruel and unusual punishment.

Re:Does the RIAA have a licensed proctologist?

[VultureMN]

You are, indeed, correct.

I think this is the first, and probably last, time on /. where a link to the goatse guy would be ONtopic.

Re:Never Gonna Happen

[themushroom]

You're thinking of Paris Hilton's album, which has probably made $1.5 million in sales - total.

Re:Does the RIAA have a licensed proctologist?

[Malevolent Tester]

The digestive system isn't a dump truck - it's a series of tubes.

Re:heh

[KublaiKhan]

Cheaper just to buy the pony.

Re:Never Gonna Happen

[Tr3vin]

You're thinking of Paris Hilton's album, which has probably made $1.5 million in sales - total.

$1.5 million in sales? Are you telling me that she bought that many copies for herself?

Re:IOW: steal the physical CD from a store

[JensenDied]

Does this mean I can now go kill several people and leave a few burned CD's for their families as compensation and continue with my day?

By Public Demand

[rinkjustice]

Alright, let's settle this once and for all - a SCO vs RIAA cagematch for most hated entity in the history of Slashdot.

I'm almost starting to believe RIAA is the favorite.

Let's negotiate.

[sizzzzlerz]

How about a discount depending upon the popularity or skill of the artist whose album was bootlegged. For example, a Beatles album gets the full 1.5 mil. A John Denver is worth 250K. You come after me for jackin' Zamfir, Master of the Pan Flute and you have to pay me.

RIAA SUX0RZ

[Anonymous Coward]

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Riptopia

[teslar]

So, first I get an email from Amazon, telling me about their amazing new service called Riptopia [amazon.com]. You send in your CDs in multiples of 100, you wait some days, you get the CDs back along with a few DVDs containing high quality rips complete with album art, correctly filled-in tags etc. For about $1 per CD. And my thought was, "well, how curious, I wonder what the RIAA would say to that".

Then I come to /. and it appears the RIAA is saying it wants 1.5 Million dollars per copied CD.

It almost makes me feel like they have a new money-making scheme:

1. Let people copy CDs on Riptopia
2. Get detailed lists of exactly what CDs have been copied for whom from Riptopia
3. Send out the bills
4. Profit!!!

Now, I'm sure I saw a guy handing out tinfoil hats running around here somewhere....

Re:Obligatory Austin Powers Quote

[billius]

It's Dr. Evil, he didn't spend six years in Evil Medical School to be called "mister," thank you very much!

Re:heh

[Anonymous Coward]

Whenever you see legislation like the PRO-IP Act, you have to ask yourself two questions:
1. Who is sponsoring the legislation?
Sponsor:
John Conyers [D-MI]

Co-sponsors:
Rep Berman, Howard L. [D-Hollywood]
Rep Cohen, Steve [D-Nashville]
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX]
Rep Schiff, Adam B. [D-Hollywood]
Rep Wexler, Robert [D-Disney]

Rep Chabot, Steve [R-OH]
Rep Feeney, Tom [R-Disney]
Rep Goodlatte, Bob [R-VA]
Rep Issa, Darrell E. [R-Hollywood]
Rep Keller, Ric [R-Disney]
Rep Smith, Lamar [R-TX]

Fixed some typos for you.

We Love ASCII.cx???!

[Dogtanian]

I was going to point out that this was one time that ASC-se man couldn't legitimately be modded "-1:Offtopic", but in the meantime someone else has +1:Informatived him instead(!)

I have to admit that this is one troll I actually have a soft spot for; the ASCII representation is pretty clever (even down to the use of exclamation mark) and the text for the infamous link always makes some effort at tying itself in with the discussion.

I can't believe I just said all that.

Re:Does the RIAA have a licensed proctologist?

[blind monkey 3]

It looks like they are attempting to reverse a tow-truck up our asses to look for the dump truck.

Re:Does the RIAA have a licensed proctologist?

[mindwanderer]

It's not garbage; it's Intestinal Property.

cost analysis

[xPsi]

$1.5M/CD? Hey, its only about $0.00027/bit. After a couple bucks, you might even recognize the data stream as music!

In euros that is...

[MavEtJu]

1.5 million US dollars... That will be 75 Euros.

Thank god I live in Canada...

[BigDaddyOttawa]

I'd be in for about $1,234,500,000, give or take a few mil. (according to iTunes, I've got 823 albums in my library)

Re:$1.5 million?

[hondo77]

You realize that you just quoted Jon Bon Jovi...in public?

Re:Walmart

[Paradise Pete]

just remove it from the cd case , even if you are caught (never happen) they won't do anything thats not over $1250.00 in cost.

Just a tip: Your friends hanging out down at the 7-11 at night are not a good source of wisdom and advice.

Re:$1.5 million?

[Dirtside]

He didn't say Jon Bon Jovi, he just said "Bon Jovi". He was referring to the well-known Italian architect, Dr. Giuseppi Bon Jovi of the Milan Institute of Design.

I mean, duh. Of course, I have no idea why an architect is bloviating about music, but who can understand Italians?[1]

[1] No one, not even other Italians.

foil linings in coats....

[Joce640k]

Even simpler than a briefcase. Get one of those military jackets with the carrier-bag size pockets and a roll of tinfoil. Good to go.

Re:$1.5 million?

[MacWiz]

I heard somewhere that you can't always get what you want.

Re:$1.5 million?

[djupedal]

The Library of Congress contains about 20 terabytes of text.

If a CD contains, say 700mb; 8.7 million copied CDs = approx. 300 LOC's

Re:heh

[belmolis]

Rep Goodlatte, Bob [R-VA]

Are you sure that shouldn't be:

Rep Goodlatte, Bob [R-Starbucks]

Re:Right then

[Yetihehe]

Copyright infridgement is like stealing. Stealing a cop his helmet. And then killing him. And then taking dump into his helmet. And sending it to the widow. And then stealing it again!

S.P.E.C.T.R.E.

[Richard Kirk]

Only $1.5 million? Are you sure?

The Society for Patent Enforcement, Copyright, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion was expecting a considerably larger figure...

(strokes cat)

Goodbye, Mister Bond.

Re:$1.5 million?

[sm62704]

who can understand Italians?[1]
[1] No one, not even other Italians.

My sister's husband is Italian, you insensitive clod.

Nobody unbderstands him though.

Re:$1.5 million?

[Vr6dub]

Yeah, but how many Cadillacs per dog year is that?

Re:$1.5 million?

[shellbeach]

I just copied Icky Thump by the White Stripes and Parsifal by Richard Wagner, conducted by James Levine. The Wagner is 4 CDs, so does that mean I owe them a total $7.5mil?

Normally, yes. But I'd imagine that listening to four CDs of Wagner would be considered punishment enough ...