Woman Gets Fined 1.9 Mill for Illegal Downloading

A federal jury Thursday found a 32-year-old Minnesota woman guilty of illegally downloading music from the Internet and fined her $80,000 each — a total of $1.9 million — for 24 songs.

Jammie Thomas-Rasset’s case was the first such copyright infringement case to go to trial in the United States, her attorney said.

 

Nice link bait.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_tec_music_downloading

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Looks like whoever fined her runned out of money

Serisouly I dont understand why they catch those who download instead of those who provide! are they too weak to catch the big downloads sites? thats why they go to the innocent ones to get their money from?

EDIT: OMG for 24 songs only??? thats crazy!!!! they really think she will get that money? haha people are so funny today, unreasonable, with no sense.

 

I definitely go with Ichigo91 on the point. I am feeling sad for the lady. Don't know whether she will be able to pay such a huge fine for mere 24 songs or not.

 

Well, thats too much costly.
$1.9 million for just 24 songs.

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What I dont get is, why dont they just charge her the cost of the actual track? Unless she has been providing and sharing the track, then that makes a difference, but if shes illegally downloaded a few and not shared them. She obviously was not going to buy them anyhow, so they wouldnt have got money off her either way because people who download wont buy, so let them download because if you stop them they still wont buy.

 

talented judges

 

You can download the songs from YouTube, using certain programs. I don't get what's the difference? Why aren't people charged for downloading directly from such a huge provider?

 

That's a flaw in the cyberworld..

hope it is corrected in the future atleast...

 

$1.9M for 24 songs? are they crazy?

 

$1.9M for 24 songs what a sad world we live in.

 

i think hats off to a so much talented judge,i think the judge must have got something in return from the music company for this judgment

 

$ 1.9 million dollars for just 24 songs!!

I guess I can build a very good recording studio with such an amount!

Regards,

RightMan

 

That's a ridiculous judgment....worstuuuuuuuu

 

It was Michael Bolton...Well worth the money in my opinion

 

Very poor woman! i feel sad for her .

 

Those songs are expensive ...

 

thats not fair,
fine should be for those who provide this stuff for downloading

 

The jury members are out of their mind. They should catch the providers and in any case that is too big amount for 24 songs.

 

It's not fair, I'm just thinking abt the juge how he/she fine such big amount for 24 song!!!! Yes people can downlod from youtube and other too, so they msut fine the service provider thise offerig that kind of downlod. Really bad