russotto
join:2000-10-05
Collegeville, PA | reply to stet
Re: Secretly, the MPAA likes this
Nope, the MPAA can't help but lose money on the lawsuits. They're suing people who are worth less in total than the MPAA pays their lawyers for the case. |
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stet
Volitar Prime
join:2002-03-08
Warren, MI
| They can include their legal fees in the lawsuit. It's the same thing that DirecTV was doing against people pirating their signal with hacked cards.
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JofCore
join:2004-09-15
Sebewaing, MI | But what happens when they sue someone that's doesn't have the money to pay them? Or the means to acquire said money? What about someone that's already going bankrupt? Not much you can bleed from a stone... |
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stet
Volitar Prime
join:2002-03-08
Warren, MI | The court would garner your wages until your fine is paid. And bankruptcy may not clear you of your legal fines like it could other depts.
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Spore Cloud
I H8 Computers
join:2001-09-09
Burleson, TX | The point JofCore is trying to make to you is that even if their wages were garnered for their entire lives, it STILL wouldnt be enough to cover the costs of all the lawyers they use. There is no profitability. |
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Thaler
Premium
join:2004-02-02
Encino, CA
| Exactly...these court suits are more for scare tactics than revenue.
Say I SOMEHOW got the courts to order you to pay me 100 trillion dollars...it doesn't mean that I'm that much richer. Many of the plantiffs on the RIAA/MPAA hunts are in such circumstances, where the full fine amounts could very well equal the family income for years to come.
Why do you think you've never seen any taken all the way to a jury? The customer doesn't want to risk it, nor does the media agency want the legal bother of pursecuting Joe Schmoe of his last nickel & dime. All the RIAA/MPAA wants is someone to hang, to exemplify them to all the other pirates that, "Thou Shall Not Steal". |
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