Friday, June 19, 2009

Woman fined $2.4m for downloading 24 songs!!!

A US jury has ordered a 32-year-old woman to pay $US1.92 million ($A2.4 million) in damages for illegally downloading 24 songs in a high-profile digital piracy case. 

Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a single mother of four from the US state of Minnesota, was found liable for using the Kazaa peer-to-peer file-sharing network to download the songs over the internet. 

The jury took just under five hours to reach its verdict. More...

See also:

  1. Internet access a human right, say French judges...
  2. Pirate Bay victory will be short-lived...
  3. British musicians: music downloading is NOT a crime...
  4. RIAA dumps its piracy watchdog...
  5. Has the RIAA met its match?

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