June
$1.9 million fine for 24 songs, wacky RIAA at it again
Posted by Peter Geddis at 4:56 PM. Placed in News category
Interesting news for fans of the extended fiasco that is the RIAA and their hunt for music downloaders, a recent retrial just settled against the infamous Jammie Thomas with the final verdict laying down the hefty sum of $80,000 dollars PER SONG!!! Shocking as this is almost 9 times as much as the original trials verdict of roughly $9000 a song :O
I’m pretty sure any reasonable and sane person should be able to tell that these fines are just so far beyond ridiculous!
The upside to this is that it could lead to quick revisions to the US copyright laws to refuse bullies like the RIAA the chance to ’send a message’ through the use of grossly inflated charges, glad to know the constitution is good for something!