Is it true that the government might pass a law that states we cannot download music?

Question

I heard that if they pass this law you cannot download music and if you are caught you will be fined $500 for one song

Answer 1

$500 for one song? Holy s.hit that's insane. How do they catch people anyway?

Answer 2

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Answer 3

PEOPLE READ THE QUESTION. They arnt talking about illeagaly they are talking about from like itunes and stuff. And no, no such law exsists.

Answer 4

And this would be bad?  People for years have been pirates when it comes to downloading music.  You do it for free and those who created it are paid nothing.  This is okay with you?

Wow!  Our society has decayed to the point where people think that they deserve everything at no cost.  No wonder liberalism is so rampant in America.

Answer 5

The government has the wrong priorities. How about passing a law that my personal and private details like

My Email address, and my phone contact numbers ,are not to be resold for profit  by private companies. should a company wish to store my particulars  they should pay me as well.

Answer 6

Yes, it would be true if you were asking this question YEARS ago. It is already illegal to download music unless you have permission of the copyright holder. It has been for a long time. This of course normally requires you to pay for the download

Answer 7

No, they WILL not pass such a law.  That would be overly redundant.  Downloading ANY copyrighted material without the copyright owners permission is already illegal under laws that predate computers by a century or two.

Answer 8

i think theyy already did

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Answer 9

If you make unauthorized copies e.g. burning music files or films on to CD-Rs or DVD-Rs;

distributes, sells or hires out unauthorized copies of Cd's, Cd's and DVDs;

on a larger scale, distributes unauthorized copies as a commercial enterprise on the Internet;

possesses unauthorized copies with a view to distributing, selling or hiring these to other people;

while not dealing commercially, distributes unauthorized copies of software packages, books, music, games, and films on such a scale as to have a measurable impact on the copyright owner's business;

publishing someone Else's original copy work and claiming you have made it. (This is known as plagiarism and is completely different from copyright infringement, but laws concerning it come under the section of copyright law in some countries);

certain copyrights allow Archival copies of software to be made however these are not to be distributed.

The penalties for these "copyright infringement" of fences depend on the seriousness of the of fences: That's the story.

Answer 10

Pretty sure it's already illegal to pirate music.  $500 for one song would completely ruin some people though.  I've got friends who've downloaded well over 5000 songs.  They'd be so screwed lol

Answer 11

Downloading music will ALWAYS be illegal...

But there isn't a real way they can keep up with all the p****y. They would have to stop selling blank discs (which doesn't matter anyway) and make something that will COMPLETELY replace or obliterate the Mp3/Wmv/Mp4/Ogg (whatever) format.

There will always be full networks of illegal music. Remember when Napster tried to legalize selling music after being free?

They will fail the same way to make a law to forbid this kind of p****y. There will be so many people on law-suits they'd think the lawyers opened a friggin' chain of buffets in the middle of the court.