Otter's Journal: RIAA Defeats Music Sharer

Apparently copyright law does apply to single mothers after all. A federal jury ruled that Jammie Thomas illegally downloaded and shared 24 songs, fining her $9,250 for each. Whether the law extends to people with severe illnesses will be determined in other ongoing trials.

Incidentally...

[Otter]

I do feel bad for this woman. Hopefully all the loudmouths who encouraged her to demand a showdown are going to dip into their pockets and help her out. I mean, with all the money they save by stealing music and movies they should have a little extra left over for her.

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[handsomepete]

It's hard not to feel bad for her - that's a big chunk of change to deal with. From the cursory reading I did of the summary, it sounded like the defense attorney's case was a bit ... questionable anyways. Showing that she could've ripped the CDs based on timestamps? That would've been a little more effective if they maybe had presented the actual CDs with receipts showing date of purchase or something. Otherwise it just kinda sounded like grasping at straws to my uninformed ears.

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