Court Slams Music Pirate With Huge Fine - of $41.00
Found on TorrentFreak on Thursday, 28 October 2010
After rightsholders demanded damages of 600 euros ($828) the case dragged through the legal system. After nearly five years a court in Germany has just published its decision. It ruled that the damages demands of the rightsholders were excessive and instead ordered the defendant to pay 30 euros ($41.00) damages.
Notably it was decided that since the tracks were old there would be a limited demand for them. Furthermore, since it could only be proven that the tracks were made available for a short amount of time, few downloads of the tracks would have taken place.
Now that makes sharing much more interesting for music lovers, and sueing much less interesting for the industry. It's a great basis for forcing the entertainment indsutry to work on a better business model.