US woman to pay $1.5m for downloading music
Posted in: Online TV/Music at 05/11/2010 15:25
[AFP] A US jury has ordered a Minnesota woman to pay $US1.5 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 on Wednesday (local time) of copyright infringement for using Kazaa, a peer-to-peer file-sharing network, to download the songs from the internet.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/11/05/3057944.htm
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/mother-refuses-to-pay-147-million-for-pirating-music-online-20101105-17g7j.html
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/mother-refuses-to-pay-147-million-for-pirating-music-online-20101105-17g7j.html
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Third jury fines Minnesota woman $1.5M for pirating 24 songs
A federal jury this week ordered Minnesota native Jammie Thomas-Rasset to pay $1.5 million to six music companies for pirating 24 of their copyrighted songs. The decision came in the third trial on the same issue.
The decision, handed down in a Minnesota federal court on Wednesday, cut more than $400,000 from the $1.92 million that Thomas-Rasset was ordered to pay the companies by a separate jury in June 2009. The first jury to hear the case in 2007 had ordered Thomas-Rasset to pay $222,000 to the firms.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9194919/Third_jury_fines_Minnesota_woman_1.5M_for_pirating_24_songs
