Pirating Music Equals Money Trouble

July 2, 2009 in Business, Web by LwEEs

Almost everyone has at some point pirated music in their lifetime, some people do it every day ignoring that they are actually 13890-orgbreaking the law. Kids do it all the time, I know of a few that have extensive music libraries from programs like LimeWire, they believe that because they get access via this software, the stuff they have there is free to take.

In the news we have the case of Jamie Thomas defending herself in courts against the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), which is charging her with 24 counts of pirating music over the Internet. When you study Jamie’s case you get into some nasty details of how this mess got to be, allegedly Ms. Thomas had available for download, via a peer-to-peer site, 24 songs that she owned. Read the rest of this entry →