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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
When the songs costs .99 cents online to download, there's nothing stating she distributed them to anyone else, how is being fined $1.9M dollar for 24 digital songs NOT excessive? Honestly, I am curious.
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Because illegally violating copyright laws isn't a matter of just paying for what you took. If you grabbed 20 Cd's from HMV, copied them, and sold them on the street would you expect that the worst consequences would be paying the sticker price of those CD's?
Here's the link
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_tec_music_downloading