| From the Where2sing.com forum: Single mum ordered to pay $1.5m for illegally downloading 24 songs!!
From Correspondents in Washington, AFP : November 05, 2010 12:45PM
A US jury has ordered a Minnesota woman to pay $1.5 million for illegally downloading 24 songs in a high-profile digital piracy case.
Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a single mother of four, was found liable by a jury today of copyright infringement for using KaZaA peer-to-peer file-sharing network to download the songs over the internet.
She was ordered to pay $62,500 for each of the 24 songs, a total of $1.5 million.
The verdict was the third in the long-running case and was welcomed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
'We are again thankful to the jury for its service in this matter and that they recognized the severity of the defendant's misconduct,' the RIAA said.
'Now with three jury decisions behind us along with a clear affirmation of Ms Thomas-Rasset's willful liability, it is our hope that she finally accepts responsibility for her actions,' it said.
In June 2009, a jury ordered Thomas-Rasset to pay $1.92 million - or $80,000 dollars per song - to six record companies: Capitol Records, Sony BMG Music, Arista Records, Interscope Records, Warner Bros Records and UMG Recordings.
Thomas-Rasset was convicted previously, in October 2007, and ordered to pay $220,000 in damages but the judge who presided over that trial threw out the verdict calling it 'wholly disproportionate' and 'oppressive'.
The RIAA and major music labels brought suit against thousands of people for illegally downloading and sharing music, with most agreeing to settlements of between $3000 and $5000.
Thomas-Rasset, however, has consistently refused to settle the case.
In December 2008, the RIAA said it will stop suing people who download music illegally and focus instead on getting Internet Service Providers to take action.
The move away from litigation represented a major shift in strategy for the music industry group, which had filed lawsuits against some 35,000 people for online music piracy since 2003.
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