Legal Niches

A federal judge has reduced the verdict in the only file-sharing case to have gone to trial in the United States.  The case has now been tried twice.  In 2007, a $222,000 judgment was awarded against a Minnesota woman who shared 24 songs over the Internet.  Last year, another judge awarded recording companies $1.92 million.  Now, a judge has reduced that judgment to $2,250 per song, or about $54,000.

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