alan1
Gold Member
And it was uphill on the way back to, and the snow was deeper.A Boston University student who admitted illegally downloading and sharing 30 songs was ordered Friday to pay $675,000 to four record companies.
In awarding the companies $22,500 per track, a federal jury in Boston decided on a far lesser amount than the maximum faced by Joel Tenenbaum of Providence, R.I.. Under federal law, the jury could have ruled that the record studios were entitled to as much as $150,000 per track, or $4.5 million.
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30 songs, $22,500 per track. See what happens when we have deficits? Run-away inflation. I remember when you could buy a track for less than 25 cents. Of course, you had to walk uphill in the snow to the vinyl record shop, but it was worth every penny.
I wish people would quite sniveling about global warming, it's much easier to trudge through rain than snow, and now it's downhill both ways.