Illegal Music Downloader Pays Heavy Price
Updated: 09:11, Friday October 05, 2007
People who download music illegally may be feeling more nervous after an American woman was ordered to pay more than £100,000 in damages for file-sharing.
Crackdown on file sharing
Jammie Thomas was ordered to pay $220,000 (£108,000) after six record companies sued her.
They said she shared 1,702 songs by downloading them without permission and then offering them online through a Kazaa file-sharing acount.
Thomas had claimed that she did not have a Kazaa account.
She was fined $9,250 (£4,550) for each of 24 songs specified in the case - the lowest the jury could have awarded was $750 (£370) per song.
"This does send a message, I hope, that downloading and distributing our recordings is not OK," said Richard Gabriel, the chief lawyer for the music companies.
Record companies have filed 26,000 lawsuits since 2003 over file-sharing, with many defendants settling out of court and illegal sharing dropping as a result.
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