32 year old woman has to pay $1.92
million
The recording industry has won its only ever case bought to trail
against a suspected P2P pirate.
Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a single mother of
four from the US state of Minnesota, apparently cost the music industry
$1.92 million in damages when she apparently placed files on
Kazaa.
The jury took just under five hours on Thursday to reach its
verdict.
Thomas-Rasset had been convicted previously, in October 2007, and
ordered to pay $220,000 in damages but the judge who presided over that
trial threw out the verdict calling it "wholly disproportionate" and
"oppressive."
It is expected that Thomas-Rasset will appeal the case on
the basis that the damages are way out of line with reality. In December,
the RIAA said it will stop suing people who download illegally and
focus instead on getting internet Service Providers to
take action.
This is
mostly because as a technique it was failing to
stop illegal file sharing
and was costing the industry too much in legal bills.