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Ouch! Hefty fine for file sharer

#1 buddy215

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Posted 05 October 2007 - 07:25 AM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7029229.stm
A court in the US has ordered a woman to pay $222,000 (£109,000) in damages for illegally file-sharing music.
The jury ordered Jammie Thomas, 32, from Minnesota, to pay for offering to share 24 specific songs online - a cost of $9,250 per song.

Record companies said she had illegally shared a total of 1,702 songs.

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Posted 05 October 2007 - 07:38 AM

"Our message is: we don't want to litigate - don't leave yourself exposed to litigation," he added.

I wonder why they don't want to litigate...? Maybe its because they know that the current laws against filesharing are entirely unconstitutional, and that a good lawyer could take a case like that a long way.