Posted 10/04/2007 04:38:00 PM by Douglas

The RIAA continues their steady march away from relevance. I have to admire this woman for not just emptying her bank account like most of the other accused did, but it doesn't look like she's gonna win.

Six major record companies accuse Jammie Thomas, 30, of sharing 1,702 songs online in violation of the companies' copyrights. The record companies claim they found the songs on a Kazaa file-sharing account they later linked to her.

After two days of testimony from 11 witnesses, the defense rested without calling anyone to the stand, and closing arguments in the civil trial were scheduled for Thursday morning.

Earlier in the day, Thomas set up her computer in court to show the jury how quickly CDs could be copied onto it. That demonstration came in response to testimony from an expert for the record companies, Doug Jacobson, who said the songs on one of Thomas' computer drives were copied at a pace so fast it suggested piracy.

Many appeared just 15 seconds apart, which Jacobson claimed was faster than Thomas could have copied songs from CDs she owned onto the computer.

But each song Thomas copied in court over Gabriel's objection took less than 10 seconds to land on the computer.

Wow. This kind of thing is going to sound really absurd in about five more years.

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