What makes more sense:

a) Suing people for absurd amounts of money over a single movie and or music; or

b) Suing or requesting the amount the movie(s)/music was worth when it was first released?

Hopefully you'd agree the latter is a better option. Nobody likes talking about being sued over their movie or music collection, because alot of people feel they have enough anonymity that they wouldn't be caught.

Despite this feeling, you cannot leave the country anymore without allowing laptop inspections. Unless you use a program like Truecrypt to hide and protect the infringing content, anything found that you have no proof of purchase will be used against you in court.

Now, I've spent alot of time watching and reading up on cases. It's become apparently that the win-loss ratio for the suing companies can be quite low. Their so called "tactics" are typically not enough proof in courts that the individual(s) located at the IP address even followed through with the infringements.

I wouldn't be surprised to see statistics on the number of individuals sued that had an open wireless network, compared to those that had a protected network. I remember reading a case a while back of a couple in Europe that were taken to court over the downloading of a movie and being caught. The downside? They didn't even own a computer, they had an unprotected wireless network and probably someone sitting on the street picked up on their network and used it to download the movie or music.

DRM doesn't work. Plain and simple. Never has and never will. Theres just too many people out their that want to be able to do what they wish with the content they purchase. It's when stupid companies go out and put DRM on software, movies and music limiting you to only playing on this type of machine, or else it's this other machine that you don't have.

So i propose a new system. A way for people to legally own the movies and music; be it downloaded or ripped from disc; permanently without future harassment from the big labels.

Create a website that allows consumers to purchase personalized serial numbers that correspond with the movie/music collection their wanting to pay for. Theres no more need for physical ownership of discs, just a personalized serial number thats stored both with the consumer and the big labels. Charging only what the movie/music was originally worth when it was first released onto disc.

Sure there maybe bugs within this system that can be easily ironed out, but at least the movie and music labels get the money they want for the content and the consumer no longer has to worry about having problems later on down the road.

Suing someone $600,000 for a single movie worth $60 is absurd and definitely a major money grab, but it also makes the companies believe that they can do anything; as if they were an all powerful god; and then they fail without proper proof.

On second thought, don't let the plaintiff host those servers. Who knows what corruption they would do just to score some extra money.

Started April 1st 2009 all sellers in Ontario are required to charge a new OES Fee as per the table below.

Check this list for a general listing of items for each category(PDF)

*Please note that the fees for desktop computers and portable computers do not include fees for external monitors, printers and computer peripherals devices such as mice, keyboards, single hard drives or optical drives.  Any bundled package of the above Phase 1 EEE must be accounted for separately in the same Steward’s Report.