A federal Judge on Friday dramatically reduced a penalty imposed on Jammie Thomas-Rasset by a Jury last year that amounted to almost $2 million for the offense of sharing 24 songs over the Internet. U.S. District Judge Michael Davis, who knocked the $1.92 million penalty down to about $54,000 ($2,250 per song), described the original fine as "monstrous and shocking."
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If they are smart they will accept any fine that she can live with, just to get the precident set.
The money is not the important part. The guilty verdict is.
"The Judge said that he came to the $2,250 fee by simply tripling the minimum $750 penalty defined by Federal law, but did indicate that he could have considered an even lower fine."
-He should have...if she had stolen 20 cds with 240 tracks from a CD Store, she would not have had to pay the minimum fine for 24 tracks shared.
"RIAA attorneys are still analyzing the ruling to decide how to respond." For some reason this makes me think of them all sitting around in a dark castle at a big round table in a room with no windows,scheming on what to do next.
Originally posted by bam431: "RIAA attorneys are still analyzing the ruling to decide how to respond." For some reason this makes me think of them all sitting around in a dark castle at a big round table in a room with no windows,scheming on what to do next.
Yeah, you know they're all sitting around twisting their mustaches trying to squeeze every nickel they can out of that mother of four. They have to make an example out of her you know, stifle this dastardly
file sharing so they can REALLY give the artists the money they deserve.
