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Looks Like It’s Retrial Time For Capitol Records v. Jammie Thomas

There was no settlement Tuesday in Capitol Records v. Jammie Thomas, what Wired calls “the nation’s only file sharing case to have gone before a jury.” This sets the stage for a retrial on June 15.

You may remember that the judge threw out the original verdict because he felt he erred in his instructions to the jury when he told them that they could find Thomas guilty of “unauthorized distribution” even if the plaintiff couldn’t prove that anyone actually downloaded the songs.

Since the RIAA’s already given up on suing people, you’d think they’d have simply said, “Never mind” and moved on with getting the ISPs on board with being music cops. But no.

Full post as published by Jenkins Webblits on May 14, 2009 (boomark / email).