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20 Jun 09

Thomas verdict: willful infringement, $1.92 million penalty - Ars Technica

jm: "A new lawyer, a new jury, and a new trial were not enough to save Jammie Thomas-Rasset. In a repeat of the verdict from her first federal trial, Thomas-Rasset was found liable for willfully infringing all 24 copyrights controlled by the four major record labels at issue in the case. The jury awarded the labels damages totaling a whopping $1.92 million.

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  • A new lawyer, a new jury, and a new trial were not enough to save Jammie Thomas-Rasset. In a repeat of the verdict from her first federal trial, Thomas-Rasset was found liable for willfully infringing all 24 copyrights controlled by the four major record labels at issue in the case. The jury awarded the labels damages totaling a whopping $1.92 million. As the dollar amount was read in court, Thomas-Rasset gasped and her eyes widened
  • The recording industry lawyers, though clearly pleased, had no desire to showboat this one. The massive damage award, which increased from $9,250 per song in the first trial to $80,000, might sounds like a "win," but will probably stoke grassroots anger against the industry's campaign... if the music business tries to collect. There are hints that it might not.
02 Nov 08

BBC NEWS | Technology | Games firms 'catching' non-gamers

Games firms are accusing innocent people of file-sharing as they crack down on pirates, a Which? Computing investigation has claimed.

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07 Sep 08

Begging states to try to enforce ridiculous assertion that the law is copyrighted

By the people, for the people, of the people, but copyrighted by the government! How can this even be an issue? Laws that are owned by the government?

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20 Jul 08

Copyright: so complex, here's a slide rule to decode it

The reality is that US copyright is a humped and horned animal with two heads, pebbly skin, and a ravenous stomach that gorges itself on the grain called "Complexity."

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06 Jul 08

Campus copyright battle moves to textbook torrents

pretty clear that there's significant expertise with filesharing on college campuses, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that this expertise has been put to use with other copyrighted materials.

by jschinker .

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