RIAA wins first lawsuit, defendant to pay $9250 per song

Jesus Christ. It's not like the defendant was a big company or something, either. It's a single mother in Minnesota.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...ict-is-in.html

its over 9000!!

It is over 100,000, actually.

Wow. That's fairly insane.

Jury by Metallica & Friends?

Wow. That's fairly insane. Jury by Metallica & Friends?

Lmfao.

That is horrible, screw RIAA.

$220,000

Oi, I was reading about the trial earlier, thinking to myself "there's no way the RIAA is going to win this one, the jury is going to think they're nuts"

Failed jury, IMO.

So why'd they target her, out of all people?

Also, what the fuck was the jury thinking? They've never downloaded songs? I call bullshit.

So why'd they target her, out of all people?

I think it was more of a 'scare tactics' thing to the rest of the internet community. If they could track down and be willing to prosecute a single mother who only downloaded a handful of songs, they'd have no problems doing the same to others who have done worse.

I feel sorry for that lady though.

Someone should start a charity to support victims of the RIAA's warpath - I'm thinking specifically of her kids.

That jury must have been full of retards though. Nearly 10k in damages per song?

Yeah no shit, where'd they find the jury for that one?

Hey, check it out. Someone is doing something.

http://www.freejammie.com/

Sundance Says: October 7th, 2007 at 11:03 am Maybe I’m misguided or just plain stupid, but what is the difference between P2P and a public library? Aren’t they both sharing copyrighted work for free?

Awesome quote.

She downloads 24 songs, and is taken to court?! That's just petty.

I think the main reason she was taken to court was because she SHARED 24 songs. Downloading itself it's the bad part, it's the fact that other people downloaded from her that they get you. She potentially gave copywritten material to millions of people.

Still a bullshit case, though. Fuck the RIAA.

OK then, shared. Still, it's only 24 songs. There are people who upload thousands of songs, pieces of software worth thousands of dollars, films, video games... yet how many of them have been taken to court and fined?

This looks like a case of the RIAA not seeing the forest for a tree.

If they cared about their image at all, they'd be targeting that geek who sits in his parents basement has is currently sharing 10,000 songs with a million other people. Not a single mother who shared 24 songs.

The RIAA is not the brightest bunch.

And the sad truth is, there's a high probability that the reason they've sued her is to 'improve their image' in a way - if they show they can come down hard on someone who only shares 24 songs, then it might deter others from doing it. Paying so much for such a little offence?