Woman Ordered To Pay The RIAA $1.9 Mil In File Sharing Lawsuit
In the first file-sharing case ever to go to trial in the U.S., a Minnesota mother of four was ordered to pay the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) $1.9 million dollars yesterday (June 18) for violating music copyright laws.
According to the Associated Press, Jammie Thomas-Rasset was targeted for sharing 24 songs on the peer-to-peer network Kazaa. She will have to pay roughly $80,000 for each track to the four major labels, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, EMI Group and Sony Music Entertainment. The RIAA was reportedly seeking $3.6 million in damages.
This is the second time this case has gone to trial. In 2007 she escaped having to pay $220,000 in the same case after the judge made mistakes when giving instructions to the jurors.
While the RIAA has filed more than 30,000 file sharing suits, this is the first case that actually sat in front of a jury. Most other case settled out of court for an average of $3,500.
There’s no way they’re ever going to get that,” Thomas-Rasset told the Associated Press of the $1.9 ruling. “I’m a mom, limited means, so I’m not going to worry about it now.”
Rolling Stone reports that Thomas’ lawyer Kiwi Camara is looking to find a settlement with the RIAA . - Elan Mancini
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Comment by CEELO on June 22, 2009 at 1:30pm
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Thats CRAZY!!!!!!!
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Comment by Sig_Sauer45 on June 22, 2009 at 6:53am -
what the f*** she download? the future, got damn. its funny cause the labels leak secretly to f*** the artist over. remember the term "tax write offs". its called loss of business when they claim it. then they turn and sue for the difference or closest too it. please send this msg to fif so he can call it out on that and bust the real criminals
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Comment by osixx on June 21, 2009 at 10:08pm -
yea i read about this earlier in the week on yahoo. dat s*** was crazy
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Comment by hazEiNmYdutch on June 21, 2009 at 9:23pm -
They shud kno they wasnt gettin 1.9 mil
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Comment by Nikkibx26 on June 21, 2009 at 6:41pm -
They need to sue people that are directly responsible to making the files available.
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Comment by Matticz on June 21, 2009 at 6:34pm -
They are suein the wrong people.Get the people who put the s*** out there in the first place.If you got a million dollars in your bag and you leave it with the wrong person he or someone else could dump the money out of the window. What are you going to do,sue everyone who grab the money fall down on them?F*** outta here the riaa are strugglin just like the rappers but not to the point where they should stiff broke people who can't afford to waste their money on music that "might" be hot.Secure your music before you leave the studio.Have 1 source that hears everything you make so if it gets leak you know who to sue or who's ass to kick!
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Comment by matt on June 21, 2009 at 5:30pm -
would a program like peergaurdian make it impossible to find you on the net?
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Comment by jBrizzle on June 21, 2009 at 3:34pm -
ps.s Honeydutch if your going to make a statement make sure it has thought behind it. moron!
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Comment by jBrizzle on June 21, 2009 at 3:32pm
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F*** THE R.I.A.A.
Wolverine leaked and it still sold 83mill the first weekend.
Eminem leaked and it now platinum.
Go f*** your desperate selves now. If that mother has to pay something that crazy. I promiss you right now i will never buy a dvd, cd or any media off line ever again.
For the record i bought 2 copies of Relapse. No offense EM but this s*** is f***** up.
I'm out!
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Comment by Big tone on June 21, 2009 at 3:26pm -
f*** thoses amjor labels shows you how dumb they are trying to scare people with big lawsuit.. records sales on the low so they trying to get they hands in every pokets now( it aint only about the show money anymore) ..... go independant and getistributed by KOCH and do promotion on this site right here ufck all them
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