500 people and I know a friend of one of them.
they are being sued for $4 million for 10 songs that RIAA found on their work computer. the person left kazaa on accidentally at work.
I don't know what I think of this. I download music, but as a previewing tool. I'm a college student, so my previewing lasts a couple months before I can score the money to buy the CD. Downloading is a huge problem and it goes further into the music business than many people thing. Why do you think most CD's are so fucking short lately? Labels don't want to release a long CD because it just means they have to put more money into a CD that will just be downloaded anyway. Bands are given less money to record because the labels don't make the money they used to, so less money there means a lot of things. Agains, shorter cds and more recordings done with studios that use protools as a main way to mix (which isn't always bad but a recording done on a good console such as an SSL whould sound so much better). The problem has to be fixed somehow, but I'm not sure if law suits are the right way to go about it.
