Woman Charged $1.92 Million For Downloading 24 songs

[The-Leak (aka) kingwell (bka) JULES]

THIS IS WHY YOU DONT FUCK WITH P2P.

A federal jury found Jammie Thomas-Rasset guilty of illegal file-sharing and fined the 32-year-old mother of four $1.92 million, the AP reports. She was found to have violated the copyrights on 24 songs and each carried an $80,000 penalty. This was the second trial of Thomas-Rasset, after an error in jury instructions in 2007 prompted a retrial. Of more than 30,000 similar cases, most settled out of court for about $3,500; Thomas-Rasset's is the first such case to go to trial.

Recording companies accused Thomas-Rasset of sharing 1,700 songs on Kazaa and identified her through her screen name and IP address. Lawyers for the recording companies asked for such a large penalty to deter others from illegally distributing the music of Gloria Estefan, Sheryl Crow, Green Day, and Journey, among others, as Thomas-Rasset stood accused of doing. Eighty thousand dollars for a Journey song? I'm pretty sure it can be had legally for a buck.

Thomas-Rasset's file-sharing occurred in 2005, and Kazaa has since reached a settlement with the music companies to become a legal subscription service. The recording industry has also changed its tactics in fighting file-sharing; no lawsuits like the one against Thomas-Rasset have been filed since August. Bad timing for her. Where's she going to find almost $2 million? "There's no way they're ever going to get that," she said.

[you gon always be my latin queen bitch]

for 24 songs?
damn and why is that any different than the downloadin on this site?

[OG Hack Wilson]

lol thats a bit excessive


why is our court system hearing this shit?

[Moe]

yeah, shes fucked.

[Chamillitary Click]

how does shit like that happen?

[MediumL]

i thought they usually have warnings. my mate got a  warning and had to lay off the downloading for a while

[Lunatic]

what? can she even pay that?

[RingMan]

people still using Kazaa? smh

[Blasphemy]

Yeah she's fucked. She can't pay that, so they'll take all her assets, and then throw her in jail. LOL fucking pwned, but Honestly that's a bullshit ruling. She should only have to pay for each track she was ripping.

[R1ZE]

uh I'm pretty sure the courts overruled the iraa's ridiculous claims of thousands per song... i can find the article tomorrow but i know its less than 10 dollars per song now... if this is pursueable at all

oh well no worries for us canadians

[The Watcher]

this is the second trial. in the first one she lost and was ordered to pay $220,000. the judge in the first case admitted he made some fuckups instructing the jury, it went back to court and now she got found guilty again, having to pay the $1.92mil

they offered to settle the case before the trial for $3-5000 but she said no, bet she wishes she didnt use that p2p now

bittorrent and rapidshare/megaupload/whatever will be next on the hit list of the RIAA. private trackers for bittorrent keep logs, so does rapidshare, megaupload etc

[Dre-Day]

labels can't stop downloading

[Jome]

why is our court system hearing this shit?

Cash rules everything around you, still.

[virtuoso]

Nice one, if anything this kind of scandalous decision just motivates people to defy these greedy bastard corporations all the more.

[Moe]

Nice one, if anything this kind of scandalous decision just motivates people to defy these greedy bastard corporations all the more.

probably not.