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Monday morning, the federal file-sharing trial of Jammie Thomas-Rasset begins, and Ars will be there with gavel-to-gavel coverage. Here's what you need to know to keep up.
Accused file-sharing defendant Jammie Thomas-Rasset and the RIAA will meet again in Minneapolis tomorrow for a retrial of the only such case to reach a jury verdict. Here's your last-minute overview of the trial, featuring all of last week's updates.
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Has the RIAA's Fight Against File Sharing Gone Too Far?
Jun 18th, 2009 - PC World
Some legal experts question the constitutionality of a $1.92 million fine given to a woman accused of pirating 24 songs. A Minnesota jury ordered Jammie Thomas-Rasset to pay that yesterday...
'Insane' $1.9 million verdict could prove RIAA's downfall
Jun 18th, 2009 - ZDNet
So Jammie Thomas-Rasset is a thief - a willful copyright infringer - who uploaded 24 songs to the Internet. At least, the jury in her second trial so found in delivering a $1.
RIAA awarded $1.92 million in file sharing case
Jun 18th, 2009 - TG Daily
Minneapolis, (MN) - A woman has been ordered to pay $1.92 million for downloading 24 tracks from the Kazaa file sharing site - $80,000 per song. When the case first went to trial in 2007, the jury awarded just $9,250 a song...
Minnesota Woman Fined $1.92M in File-Sharing Retrial
Jun 18th, 2009 - FOXNews.com
MINNEAPOLIS — A replay of the nation's only file-sharing case to go to trial has ended with the same result - a Minnesota woman was found to have violated music copyrights and must pay huge damages to the recording industry.
Jammie Thomas Fined $1.92M for Sharing 24 Songs
Jun 18th, 2009 - PC Magazine
The trial was Thomas-Rasset's second, after the first was declared a mistrial. Thomas-Rasset is the only defendant accused of violating copyright to go to trial. The decision was reported Thursday by the Associated Press.
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Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a single mother of two, has been proven liable for illegal sharing of music over the internet, after a 2 year long suit in a Minnesota court. Rasset, who managed to win the retrial, after a $220,000 verdict was announced against her, has now been asked to pay a mamoth sum of $1.92, as ordered by the jury.(World News)
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