Friday 4:18pm (19th June 2009)

RIAA wins big: $80,000 per song for 24 songs..
Arstechnica reports about a United States case where a judge has just awarded (US) $1,920,000 dollars (NZ 3 million) for infringing copyright by illegally downloading 24 songs. Jammie Thomas-Rasset was found to be willfully infringing, "which means that statutory damages under the [United States] Copyright Act can range from $750 per infringement up to $150,000." In a similar case Joel Tenenbaum may be up for one million dollars for 7 songs. Their homepage features an interview with Joel.