05.10.2007 00:35 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

RIAA wins first-ever file-sharing case to go to trial, awarded $222,000

Filed under: Portable AudioThe first RIAA file-sharing case to go to trial just wrapped, and sadly, the outcome isn't a positive one. Regardless of the incredibly asinine and consumer-hostile comments made by Sony BMG's head of litigation the other day, the jury fournd Jammie Thomas, a single mother from Minnesota, liable for willful copyright infringement and awarded the RIAA defendants $222,000 -- that's $9,250 for each of the 26 songs she was alleged to have made available on Kazaa, for those of you keeping track at home, and probably somethi

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