Jammie Thomas-Rasset ordered to pay $80,000 per song. Damn ! That's more that Pharrel & Timbo charge for tracks ! That's why I ask for iTunes Gift Cards !So far, the Recording Industry Association of America has brought more than 35,000 lawsuits against alleged illegal file-sharers. But in the only case to go to trial to date, a federal jury on Thursday found 32-year-old Minnesota mother Jammie
Thomas-Rasset liable for file-sharing, fining her $1.92 million for allegedly downloading 24 songs.Thomas-Rasset was found guilty in an earlier case in which she was ordered to pay $222,000 for the same songs. The judge in that case declared a mistrial, and Thomas-Rasset opted for a new trial instead of settling with the Recording Industry Association of America, unlike the 30,000-plus others who've been sued by the organization.According to Wired, Thomas-Rasset, who has proclaimed her innocence all along, was fined $80,000 for each song in Thursday's ruling. In the latest case, she testified that her four children might have used her computer to access the file-sharing service Kazaa. In the earlier trial, she believed someone had hacked into her WiFi connection, even though she did not own a WiFi router.The original suit against Thomas-Rasset, then a single mother of two, was brought in 2006. While the Copyright Act allows for a fine of up to $150,000 per infringement, the average payment in the thousands of settlement cases that have settled out of court is around $3,500. In late 2008, after five years of launching highly unpopular suits against music consumers, the RIAA abandoned the tactic and announced that it would instead work with Internet service providers to curb the practice.
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