Thursday, June 18, 2009
Legal / ??!! Today in Excessive Fines
Posted by Grant Brissey on Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:42 PM
When the judge declared a mistrial two years ago, Jammie Thomas-Rasset opted for a new trail instead of settling like the more than 30,000 people the RIAA has sued or threatened. (In her case, settling would have still meant $222,000 in fines.) Today Thomas-Rasset was found to have infringed 24 songs by downloading them with Kazaa. For this, she was fined $1.92 million—or $80,000 a song. Good luck collecting that.
Via wired.com and latimes.com.
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this should be on slog , too, not just line out. isn't this crazy? of course, there's all sorts of other crazy that's legal right now, so i suppose this isn't the biggest legal concern for americans concerned about justice these days...
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Why should the record industry change their business model now? Instead of charging $1.99 per song, they can sit back and pounce every now and again and charge $80,000 per song, or they can just send out letters to thousands of people and demand to settle our of court for $3500 as they have started to do. Watch out!
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Yeah, this judgement defies reason. Are they holding her responsible for every idiot that downloaded the latest No Doubt single? And how much of that settlement is the artist going to see? My guess is zero.
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