Jammie Thomas-Rasset will be appealing the $1.92 million judgement against her in the first RIAA file sharing case ever decided by a jury.
At issue will be the constitutionality of awarding $80,000 per song. US copyright sets minimum damages at $750 per song, but allows up to $150,000 for "willful infringement."
Attorney Joe Sibley told CNET News "She wants to take the issue up on ... [ read the full article ]
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Judges must go cheap in Duluth, MN this poor lady is getting the shaft and everytime she goes back they hit her with more fines so if she persues this futher will it go to $4 million?
Maybe they will decide to raise that small limit from $150K to $1.5M, it's only fair as the RIAA is really hurting right now. LOL
This lawsuit and penalties are, simply put, insane.
The recording business is grasping at straws and it somehow makes them feel better to hurt some little consumer rather than accept that they screwed consumers for years, and now their business model is bankrupt.
They need to turn their attention, not towards hurting the consumer, but instead how they can change their business model to give the consumers what they want at a fair price. Making buying CD's WORTH it...
Back in the old days of Albums, it was a nice deal: nice cover art, nice extras... how about cd's that have bonus tracks unavailable by net? How about cd's with nice packaging that cannot be downloaded? How about if you buy x number of cd's you get a free concert ticket? There are many ways they could help themselves but instead they'd rather eff us, the consumers.
That is totally stupid. How do they expect one to pay back that kind of amount? I also remember that they were offering warnings to the person and told them if they got rid of all their content and promise to not do it again that there would be no lawsuit. How come they can't do it in this case? It sounds like they are just trying to make an example.
