Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the Minnesota resident whose legal tussle with the RIAA has resulted in some hyperbolic news outlets throwing around Joan Of Arc comparisons (oy), has been found guilty of pirating music by a Federal jury and ordered to pay the Recording Industry Association of America $1.92 million–$80,000 for each one of the 24 not-very-good songs that the music-industry lobbying group wanted to nail her for stealing via KaZAA. (Fun fact: That amount of money could buy about 101,000 full-price CDs, before taxes.) In a cruel irony, the money she’ll have to pay is eight times the amount she would have had to shell out had she not decided to appeal the guilty verdict brought against her in October 2007. More »
• The RIAA has finally paid $107,834 (plus $117.03 interest) to Tanya Andersen, a former target of a lawsuit by the record-industry consortium who spent two years defending herself in court. More »
The Department of Justice is siding with the RIAA in the matter of whether or not people who engage in filesharing should be forced to pay up–and that includes Jammie Thomas, the woman who has to pay the major labels $220,000 for swapping songs on Kazaa. “The federal copyright statute… More »
The Department of Justice is siding with the RIAA in the matter of whether or not people who engage in filesharing should be forced to pay up–and that includes Jammie Thomas, the woman who has to pay the major labels $220,000 for swapping songs on Kazaa. “The federal copyright statute… More »
The Department of Justice is siding with the RIAA in the matter of whether or not people who engage in filesharing should be forced to pay up–and that includes Jammie Thomas, the woman who has to pay the major labels $220,000 for swapping songs on Kazaa. “The federal copyright statute… More »
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. More »
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. More »
News from the MySpace blog of RIAA target Jammie Thomas: She’s appealing her $220,000 guilty verdict, or at least that’s what her attorney told her on CNN this morning. The strategy: “[The attorney] explained how we’re going to take the RIAA’s theory of making available and appeal it. More »
News from the MySpace blog of RIAA target Jammie Thomas: She’s appealing her $220,000 guilty verdict, or at least that’s what her attorney told her on CNN this morning. The strategy: “[The attorney] explained how we’re going to take the RIAA’s theory of making available and appeal it. More »
