With the news about the recent decisions in both the Joel Tennenbaum case and the Jammie Thomas Rasset case, there has been a lot of uninformed complaining going on. The biggest error among the misinformed is this: they think people were fined for downloading music.
They weren’t.
In most articles you’ll read online, the act of downloading is the focus, like this one over at Gizmodo. I understand that a lot of people online like to steal music, and that they’re upset that some people got in trouble for it – but the fact is, they’re wrong about what the people got in trouble for. The people (Tennenbaum and Thomas-Rasset) got in trouble for downloading and distributing music. They were found to do so willingly, and while knowing that to do so was illegal. Continue reading →
