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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
from my perspective, all I can advise is try your best to make yourself a man of straw. Ie - dont own anything. Then they can win their judgement and you just say "ok, fine... but I dont have any money" if it works anything like the UK the suing company just gets a derisory amount. Remember, you are a little guy against a big corporation, and this works very much in your favour.
Th company in question almost certainly would accept a settlement as well, but it may be more than you can pay. As for legal advise, if youre a college student, couldnt you try your own law department?
As for these badnits and desperado's blackmailing an 12 year old child into making statements like:
""I am sorry for what I have done," Brianna said in a statement released by the Recording Industry Association of America on Tuesday. "I love music and I don't want to hurt the artists I love."
I can say only that they (the RIAA) are scum. Dispicable capitalist attack dogs like this are the reason I dont buy music anymore. There will come a time of reckoning to be sure, and I hope and expect that these people will be dealt with in the appropriate way and learn the true consequences of actions like these.
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It's easy to blame the record execs and they are partially to blame but the artists who command millions of dollars are too.
However, just because you don't like the prices and the industry, doesn't give one the right to illegally download and copy that music. There are artists out there that need the money from their royalties and have every right to them.
Piracy doesn't just hurt the industry or the rich artist it also hurts the backing musicians, the film crews the supporting crews that also make a few pennies on every sale as part of being paid for their work.