Quote:
Originally posted by Faceman:
What I don't get is why US courts so easily agree with the fantastic numbers the victims calculate once they are big companies.
If some drunk guy for instance vandalizes my car I'd never think of sueing him
for 1.2mio.$ = the amount I would have won in high-speed chases with exactly this car (a 1989 Volkswagen Polo)
because I know (and the court knows) that there is NO way I'd have won even a single buck with this car.
But record companies can easily sue Napster for billions of dollars assuming that everybody who downloaded a song for free in a time of approx. 45 seconds would have taken 1 hour of his day to walk to the store and buy the whole album.
Same with this satellite companies. If he hadn't offered free/cheap service to all these people they would without a single exception all have bought the full price service.
|
I have to agree with Faceman if they are downloading from Napster they are unlikely to go to the record store and buy a full album. Same with satellite, if people getting their full service would likely only get the basic tier if they had no other alternative. What to stop piracy? Drop prices so they are reasonable to the normal consumer. If that means the high officials only make a few 100 grand as opposed to a few million per year so be it. I doubt it would affect there salaries though because more people would buy. The $150 million is crazy, 5 years should be enough.
[ 07-02-2003, 01:05 PM: Message edited by: pritchke ]