Jun 19th, 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. The jury in the retrial ruled that mother of four Jammie Thomas-Rasset had violated copyright and must pay almost ten times as much per track in damages to the record industry.
Outside the courtroom Thomas-Rasset said the fine was 'kind of ridiculous'. "I have no means of paying the fine. There's no way they're ever going to get that," she told reporters. "I'm a mom, limited means, so I'm not going to worry about it now.
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Jun 19th, 2009 - InformationWeek
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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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