File-sharer will take RIAA case to Supreme Court
Found on Ars Technica on Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Thomas-Rasset, a young Minnesota mom, was the first US file-sharer to take her RIAA-initiated lawsuit all the way to a trial and a verdict back in 2007. Five years, three trials, and one appeal later, she owes $222,000 to the recording industry for sharing songs on the Kazaa file-sharing network, but she doesn't plan to quit fighting.
Thomas-Rasset will follow Joel Tenenbaum, the second US resident to take his file-sharing case that far.
Something is essentially wrong with the legal system if the assumed damages are between $2,250 and $80,000 for each song. Songs which you usually pay $0.99 for. That must have been some massive commercial filesharing there to justify such amounts. I'm sure they would not make such claims against your everyday mother.