RIAA Jurors Conclude Jammie Thomas Appeal

noah | October 11, 2007 9:53 am

RIAA target Jammie Thomas might want to rethink the appeal of her $220,000 guilty verdict (or at least be a little less excited about it): “It took the jury in Capitol Records v. Thomas only five minutes to conclude 30-year-old Jammie Thomas infringed recording industry copyrights on 24 music tracks, according to the first juror to speak out on the verdict. The remaining five hours of deliberation was spent debating the appropriate financial penalty, with jurors haggling for both higher and lower awards, before settling last week on the final $222,000 figure, according to juror Michael Hegg, in an exclusive interview with THREAT LEVEL Tuesday. … In the end, ‘after bickering,’ they settled on $9,250 for each song.” [Threat Level]