Jammie Thomas-Rasset Hit With $1.92 Million Fine
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The jury in Jammie Thomas-Rasset's filesharing trial this week found the defendant guilty of downloading 24 songs from Kazaa, and hit her with a $1.92 million fine — or $80,000 per song.
But The Inquirer's Egan Orion says this is just the beginning. "This trial was merely the prologue for the real battle, which we believe will be played out in the appellate courts," he writes. "Jammie Thomas-Rasset's lawyers are, we think, playing a long game, and we'll see how that all works out, over several more years."
The most amazing thing about the judgement, according to MTV.com's Kyle Anderson, is that the list of songs she downloaded includes such selections as "Guns N' Roses' 'Welcome to the Jungle,' Def Leppard's 'Pour Some Sugar On Me' and Green Day's 'Basket Case.' I took a look at this list and thought, 'Has anybody who has downloaded music not sucked down those songs?' When you consider that Journey's 'Don't Stop Believin'' — one of the most downloaded songs in the history of digital music — was also on there, it kicks the percentage up even further…"
More here from Times Online … more here from TorrentFreak … more here from InformationWeek … more here from ZDNet … and more here from Ars Technica.
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$1.92 million for 24 songs? Did she cause that much in damage from downloading only 24 songs? Why doesn
t the RIAA push for collective licenses instead of trying to sue music fans? The lawyers are the ones making most of the money from these cases not the artist. Copying will continue and possibly increase. Collective licensing would be an excellent start in trying to restore revenue to the music industry. People probably would go for it since it would carry piece of mind from legal battles.