Minnesota mom Jammie Thomas-Rasset must pay recording industry $1.92 million for file sharing
June 19, 2009 at 7:24 am by Wayne Garcia
The file-sharing battle against industry group RIAA is not going so well. The only person to take the RIAA to trial over its file-sharing crackdown has lost, again, and lost even bigger, in a retrial:
A jury ruled Thursday that Jammie Thomas-Rasset must pay fines totaling $1.92 million to the RIAA, as a penalty for violating the copyrights on 24 songs.
The trial was Thomas-Rasset’s second, after the first was declared a mistrial. Thomas-Rasset is the only defendant accused of violating copyright to go to trial. The decision was reported Thursday by the Associated Press.
Th fine works out to $80,000 per song.
“There’s no way they’re ever going to get that,” said Thomas-Rasset, a 32-year-old mother of four from the central Minnesota city of Brainerd, told the AP. “I’m a mom, limited means, so I’m not going to worry about it now.”
Read the PCMag story. And here is a fuller AP account.
