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Submission + - RIAA Wins Copyright Case Against MN Woman (publicradio.org)

Submitted by MECC
MECC writes: The RIAA won in its case against Jammie Thomas:

Jurors ordered Jammie Thomas, 30, to pay record companies $220,000 — or $9,250 for each of 24 songs for which the companies sought damages. They could have awarded damages as low as $750 per song.
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - $220,000 judgement for sharing 24 songs (startribune.com)

Submitted by Colin
Colin writes: Blech. I'm not sure how much longer the RIAA will think that suing consumers is a tenable strategy, but with judgements like this, one wonders if it might not be more profitable for the music industry to stop making albums altogether and make copyright infringement cases their primary source of income. Given the avalanche of mediocrity on the radio these days, that may be the only thing left that they excel at.

From the story: A U.S. district court jury this afternoon found a Brainerd woman liable for illegal music file sharing and awarded a group of recording companies $222,000. The jury found the Jammie Thomas had willfully committed copyright infringement by downloading and sharing all 24 songs for which the companies had sought damages.
Media

Submission + - RIAA wins $222,000 in first ever file sharing case (engadget.com)

Submitted by
mytrip
mytrip writes: "The first RIAA file-sharing case to go to trial just wrapped, and sadly, the outcome isn't a positive one.

The RIAA plaintiffs weren't required to show that Thomas had a file-sharing program installed on her machine or that she was even the person using the Kazaa account in question."
Music

Submission + - Woman ordered to pay $220,000 to record companies (cnn.com)

Submitted by
stevenvi
stevenvi writes: "According to CNN, the RIAA has won a lawsuit against a Minnesota woman. From the article,

A jury has ordered Jammie Thomas, 30, to pay the six record companies that sued her $9,250 for each of 24 songs they focused on in the case. They had alleged she shared 1,702 songs in all.

In the first such lawsuit to go to trial, the record companies accused Thomas of downloading the songs without permission and offering them online through a Kazaa file-sharing account. Thomas denied wrongdoing and testified that she didn't have a Kazaa account.

The record companies involved in the lawsuit are Sony BMG, Arista Records LLC, Interscope Records, UMG Recordings Inc., Capitol Records Inc. and Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Pirates beware."
Music

Submission + - RIAA gets first victory in court

Submitted by Azar
Azar writes: After testimony wrapped up earlier today a verdict was handed down. Jammie Thomas, 30, from Minnesota had damages of $220,000 levied against her today. In the first such lawsuit to go to trial, the record companies accused Jammie Thomas of downloading the songs without permission and offering them online through a Kazaa file-sharing account. The jury ordered Thomas to pay the six record companies that sued her $9,250 for each of 24 songs they focused on in the case. They had alleged she shared 1,702 songs in all. During the three-day trial, the record companies presented evidence they said showed the copyrighted songs were offered by a Kazaa user under the name "tereastarr." Their witnesses, including officials from an Internet provider and a security firm, testified that the Internet address used by "tereastarr" belonged to Thomas.

Feed Engadget: Microsoft's WGA servers down, everyone's a pirate today (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

Hope you weren't planning on installing "your" legally purchased copy of XP or Vista today, Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage servers are down at the moment, meaning your Vista install will go into "reduced functionality mode" when you fail to check in with Big Brother, and your XP install will just be generally cranky until you can give that license information to The Man. Microsoft's tech support seems to be vaguely aware of the issue, and recommends trying again on Tuesday the 28th, since the server "might be down for a few days." Oh, is that all?

[Via Boing Boing; thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Submission + - WGA servers down to cause all problems(XP & Vi (microsoft.com)

Submitted by
Ant
Ant writes: "Boing Boing and Digg report that Microsoft (MS) Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) servers (which every Windows XP and Vista install phones home to) all failed sometime earlier today. The result? Every single Windows XP and Vista installation — except possibly those with volume license keys — is being marked as counterfeit when it tries to check in. Installations which are flagged as counterfeit switch to a "reduced functionality mode" which results in features being disabled... MS acknowledge the problem in its forum thread."
Windows

Submission + - Microsoft's WGA servers dead, fix days away

Submitted by Downgrade
Downgrade writes: Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage system is offline, so users who are attempting to validate their installs are getting notices that their copies of Windows are not legit. The company is now saying that it is working to have a fix not later today, not tomorrow, but on Tuesday! Ars says that users who are hit by the outage should avoid rebooting their computers, because WGA failures will result in Aero being disabled. Way to punish your customers, Microsoft!
Windows

Submission + - Microsoft WGA servers down (boingboing.net)

Submitted by
MarkByers
MarkByers writes: "DRM bites again: the Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage servers (which every XP and Vista install phones home to) all failed sometime earlier today.

The result? Every single Windows XP and Vista installation — except possibly those with volume license keys — is being marked as counterfeit when it tries to check in. Installations which are flagged as counterfeit switch to a "reduced functionality mode" which results in features like Aero and DirectX being disabled."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft activation servers are down

Submitted by anders
anders writes: On Thursday I decided to rebuild my laptop and (re-)install Vista. I activated and everything was fine until sometime yesterday, when Aero stopped working and dialogs started popping up telling me I am the victim of counterfeiting. Since my copy of Vista if perfectly legit, I did a bit of googling and it turns out that Microsoft is the victim of server downtime: the WGA/activation servers are down: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/25/microsoft_wga _server.html
Microsoft

Journal Journal: Windows Genuine Advantage Lost. 1

Journal by ozmanjusri
Microsoft's WGA servers are down. All computers running Vista or XP which try to validate are being marked as counterfiet.

A user at one of Microsoft's tech forums posted this response from the company.

Thank you for your response. I'm sorry to inform you that the Windows Genuine server might be down for few days. I have escalate the issue to our Genuine team, kindly try to validate again on Tuesday 28 Aug 2007.

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