Minneapolis (Minnesota): A US jury has ordered a 32-year-old woman to pay nearly $2 million in damages for illegally downloading 24 songs over the internet in a high-profile digital piracy case.
Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a single mother of four from the Minnesota town of Brainerd, was found liable of violating music copyrights for using the Kazaa peer-to-peer file-sharing network to download the songs. The jury took just under five hours on Thursday to reach its verdict.
It ordered Thomas-Rasset to pay $1.92 million — or $80,000 per song — to six record companies: Capitol Records, Sony BMG Music, Arista Records, Interscope Records, Warner Bros. Records and UMG Recordings. In his closing arguments on Thursday, attorney Timothy Reynolds said Thomas-Rasset had made copyrighted music available to “millions on the internet” through Kazaa. “She infringed my clients’ copyrights and then she tried to cover it up,” Reynolds said.
Thomas-Rasset had been 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 case was filed by the Recording Industry Association of America, which has brought suit against thousands of people for illegally downloading and sharing music.
Source:- Source:- The Times of India 20 June 2009 P. 20 Delhi
Source:- Source:- The Times of India 20 June 2009 P. 20 Delhi
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