nsane.forums Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 Tenenbaum, a graduate student from Boston admitted to downloading and sharing 30 songs in 2004, faced a fine up to $4.5 million - $150,000 per infringement. After a week long trial the jury eventually decided to award the RIAA $22,500 per song based on “willful infringement” mounting up to a total fine of $675,000 for Tenenbaum.From the start it was clear that the only thing that the jury had to decide on would be the the size of the fine. The fair use defense was thrown out a few hours before the trial started, which shut down the only escape route left. Tenenbaum’s defense team, headed by Harvard Professor Charles Nesson and his law students, were left powerless. “Undoubtedly, we were a creative and nontraditional legal team. But going into trial, we were stripped of all our attempts to mitigate Joel’s liability, so today’s outcome has been in the cards all week,” student Debbie Rosenbaum wrote.This is the second win in little over a month for the RIAA. In June, Jammie Thomas-Rasset lost her retrial against the RIAA and was ordered to pay $1.92 million for the 24 songs she shared via Kazaa.In total, the RIAA has spent over a million dollars on this case alone, to set an example to the millions of people who share files every day. Time will tell whether or not the verdict will have any impact at all, aside from ruining a student’s life and alienating a few million music fans.Post from: TorrentFreak View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Lite Posted August 1, 2009 Administrator Share Posted August 1, 2009 An American student has been ordered to pay $675,000 (£407,000) to four record labels for illegally downloading and sharing music online. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted August 1, 2009 Administrator Share Posted August 1, 2009 Ohhh. Injustice. It is a bad thing, how can some one pay this sort of amount. The officials are just targeting people to stay away from piracy. So sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 See?No wonder RIAA can branch off easily :bag:Oh well, there's a saying: virus spreads fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janus Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 One has to wonder if the RIAA is trying to make itself despised by picking on the lil guy. I mean can they really be so stupid. Stuff like this is just gonna blow up in their faces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 One has to wonder if the RIAA is trying to make itself despised by picking on the lil guy. I mean can they really be so stupid. Stuff like this is just gonna blow up in their faces.Amen to that :bag: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mewgia Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 It's funny that, in addition to everything else wrong with this whole deal, the RIAA actually lost money on the case... They spent over a million dollars and will only get $675,000 out of it (and that's if the student pays his entire fine). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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