
In a crucial legal victory for record labels and other copyright owners, a federal jury yesterday found a Minnesota woman liable for copyright infringement for sharing music online and imposed a penalty of $222,000 in damages.
Earlier, the judge in the case, Michael J. Davis of Federal District Court, ruled in the industry's favor on a hotly contested technical question, saying that for jurors to find her liable, the record labels did not have to prove that songs on Ms. Thomas's computer had actually been transmitted to others online. Rather, the act of making them available could be viewed as infringement, the judge ruled.
All this over only 24 songs?!
I know.
Perhaps they are trying to set an example.
I think so. It just seemed so.. minor.
Also, maybe she was an easier target for a win, than other cases.
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