News RIAA Downloading Trial Starts Today
posted by on October 2 at 12:55 PM
From Yahoo:
DULUTH, Minn. - An amateur musician and 11 other jurors were seated Tuesday in the trial of Jammie Thomas, accused by the recording industry of sharing music online in violation of copyrights.Thomas, a 30-year-old mother of two, is the first of 26,000 people sued by the industry whose case has gone to trial. An industry group and three recording companies claim she illegally offered 1,702 songs for free on a file-sharing network.
Most of the 26,000 people the record industry group has sued have settled by paying a few thousand dollars.
(Hat tip to Brooklyn Vegan)
Talk about court costs. Damn.
That's a jury that I would love to be a part of.
Comments Closed
In order to combat spam, we are no longer accepting comments on this post (or any post more than 14 days old).