Thread: You know things are messed up when

You can have (up to) 30 million illegals within this country.
The majority of them are rewarded for their illegal action.

BUT what ever you do. DO NOT download 24 songs (illegally)
You will get charged $62,500 per song or just $1,500,000 (total)

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/amplif ... -24-songs/

An of course neither is right to do. It just seems messed up that something so minor comes with such a hefty fine. The other (not near minor) seems to be rewarded.

Great point!

If you are a legal American (especially a white American), you'd better pay your business sales tax even though the foreign businesses get a nod because they may not understand what to do because of a language barrier.

If you are a white American, you may still not qualify for welfare/food stamps and other services even when in dire need, but if you are a foreigner there are agencies in Georgia designed to walk you through the whole process so there is no language barriers and no delay in getting the entitlement.

Sound a little bitter??? Been watching this going on for years, and I'm finally tired of sitting in the back of the bus!!!!

i think that lady punishment didn't suit the crime .. the RIAA is just vindictive because their on the losing side of the battle ....

as for your point about americans , espcially poor white americans being treated worse now a days then illegal immgrants , i tend to agree with you ..

Interesting comments

To put a point on it

If I buy a CD and make a tape copy and GIVE it to my wife to play in her car , Am I in violation ?

I am trying to figure this one out , If I freely give something away
how is that a copy right issue?

peer to peer sharing is a gray area , no money is being exchanged

Besides , who would want most of the modern garbage the record companies are putting out?

I just wanted to add

Unless your the Rolling Stones or Led Zep , or an uber major star
The only ones getting rich on cd sales are the record companies

Just about all the rock and music stars I know make their money on live
shows , they get like 2% ofr record sales (if that) , and out of that they have to pay money back to the record companies for promo, recording , etc

Originally Posted by Justthefacts

I just wanted to add

Unless your the Rolling Stones or Led Zep , or an uber major star
The only ones getting rich on cd sales are the record companies

Just about all the rock and music stars I know make their money on live
shows , they get like 2% ofr record sales (if that) , and out of that they have to pay money back to the record companies for promo, recording , etc

actually the reason more and more music stars have to make money off of llive concerts are because piracy is so rampant ...

the music industry has been getting CRUSHED this last decade , what were once thriving industries have been reduced to shell's of companies just trying to hang on ..

While we may think of intellectual property as free , the theft of it devistates the lives of many of the workers in that field by depriving them of their livelhood ...

i read a fancinating article recently about PC video game theft and how it's doing to the video game industry what piracy did to the music industry 10 years ago ...

here's a link if your interested

http://www.tweakguides.com/Piracy_1.html

i can't say my hands are clean on this topic thou ... shame on me

Triumph, this point can be readily used in this battle and is a VERY valid comparrison.

10,000 bootleg DVDs of 'Nollywood' Nigerian movies seized in Brooklyn

BY William Sherman
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Thursday, November 4th 2010, 4:54 PM


More than 10,000 bootleg DVDs of popular Nigerian movies have been seized this week after complaints from "Nollywood" film execs about rampant piracy in Brooklyn.

The pirated DVDs were found at nine stores in the borough, along with several high volume disc duplicators, said District Attorney Charles Hynes.

"The sale of bootleg and counterfeit goods deprives the city and state of New York of millions of dollars in sales tax revenue," Hynes said yesterday.

"And it deprives the artists who made the movies of their well-deserved proceeds."

The Nigerian film industry, known globally as "Nollywood," is extremely prolific, second only to India's Bollywood in terms of the number of films made.

Most are straight to DVD or TV, but extremely popular throughout the African continent.

That popularity has followed to the communities of immigrants from Africa in the United States, where they are legally sold in DVD form for $5 apiece while the fakes sell for $3 each.

Among the titles recovered in the sweep this past week are feature films like "Material Girl," "Mind Games," the "Governor's Gift" and "Stolen Will."

With News Wire Services

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/201 ... z14SBIYWyp

If the tax were collected it would be just 8 cents on the dollar for each dvd.
.24X10,000=$2400.00 for the bootlegged, $4000 for the legit ones.
Cost of educating an IA child in Brooklyn, NY?
At least $17,000 a year!

Priority adjustment may be necessary.