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Breaking: Woman Ordered to Pay $1.92M for Illegal Downloading

By Ashby Jones

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Wowza. The RIAA has brought 30,000 suits against alleged file-sharers, but only one has gone to trial. Today, the RIAA won big.

A 32-year-old Minnesota woman woman was found liable for illegal file-sharing and ordered to pay $1.92 million in damages. That amounts to $80,000 for each of the songs Jammie Thomas-Rasset was accused of downloading. Click here for the story, from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. As great as those old Def Leppard tunes are, $80k’s a little steep.

The RIAA brought suit against her in 2006. A federal jury in Duluth found her liable up to $220,000 for copyright infringement of 24 specific songs the RIAA focused on — $9,250 per song. U.S. District Judge Michael Davis called a mistrial because he said he gave the jurors the wrong instructions.


Full post as published by Law Blog - WSJ.com on June 18, 2009 (boomark / email).

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