Woman Fined $1.9 Million for Downloading 24 Songs

burlingo

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A federal jury Thursday found a 32-year-old Minnesota woman guilty of illegally downloading music from the Internet and fined her $80,000 each -- a total of $1.9 million -- for 24 songs.
ammie Thomas-Rasset's case was the first such copyright infringement case to go to trial in the United States, her attorney said.

Attorney Joe Sibley said that his client was shocked at fine, noting that the price tag on the songs she downloaded was 99 cents.

She plans to appeal, he said.

Cara Duckworth, a spokeswoman for the Recording Industry Association of America, said the RIIA was "pleased that the jury agreed with the evidence and found the defendant liable."

"We appreciate the jury's service and that they take this as seriously as we do," she said.

Thomas-Rasset downloaded work by artists such as No Doubt, Linkin Park, Gloria Estefan and Sheryl Crow.

This was the second trial for Thomas-Rasset. The judge ordered a retrial in 2007 after there was an error in the wording of jury instructions.

The fines jumped considerably from the first trial, which granted just $220,000 to the recording companies.

Thomas-Rasset is married with four children and works for an Indian tribe in Minnesota.
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Charfizcool

Charfizcool

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last I checked songs cost .99cents...why the fuck did they hit her with 80g's then they're willing to settle for 3g's per song...I'd rather buy a pound buck the system!
 
Mystik

Mystik

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This is just another attempt by the industry to scare people.
She'll obviously never be able to pay the amount, making the whole thing moot.
Now the industry has been changing their tactic to have anyone suspected of filesharing to just lose their service provider.
This they can do without providing proof, and without going through legal channels.
Sounds to me like both sides of the argument are just wrong now.
 
Zig Zag Zane

Zig Zag Zane

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I understand that stealing music is illegal but 2mill for 24 songs! they might as well go after all of us! this is bullshit.
 
zeppelin

zeppelin

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that's pretty extreme, who has that kind of money when they're illegally downloading music in the first place?
you'd think they'd have better things to waste their time on them some girl who downloaded 24 songs
 
Zig Zag Zane

Zig Zag Zane

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Yeah its completely fucked, I remember a long time ago, a teen girl got in trouble for downloading, but she had downloaded like 600,000 songs! not 24!
 
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