Court of Appeal Convicts File-Sharer
Found on FreakBits on Sunday, 16 August 2009
The punishment stands at 3,000 euros for sharing more than 150 albums.
The man from Finland was earlier accused of sharing music files totaling 768Mb on the Internet - around 164 albums. A search of his computer turned up 1,850 tracks which had been downloaded from unauthorized sources.
That's Finland for you. In the US, he would have ended up with $148 million - remember that Jammie Thomas was ordered to pay $1.92 million for making only 24 songs available; that's an impressive $80,000 per song. The finnish court went down a bit there, settling at $2.30 per song, which seems by far more reasonable in times of $0.99 songs. Such a ruling in the US would make it pointless for the industry to sue consumers and force it to think about a new business model.