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Saturday, October 06, 2007


OK, so she's guilty. She probably did what they said she did, so I'm not going to cry about that. But it's still a stupid law.
Thomas was the first person to fight back all the way to a trial. Six major record companies accused Thomas of offering 1,702 songs on the Kazaa file-sharing network. At trial, they focused on 24 songs and jurors decided Thursday that Thomas willfully violated the copyright on all 24. Their verdict was for damages of $9,250 per song, or $222,000.

The recording industry won two victories with that verdict.
I don't think so. Is $220K going to do a damn thing for the industry? Other than further alienating their consumers, I doubt this will do a thing to deter more than a dozen file-sharing users to stop. So instead of dealing with the new technology, they're just digging a bigger hole for themselves in a vain attempt to regain the glory days of the $16 CD.

One of my favourite stories the Onion has ever done.

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