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PostSubject: Woman loses $222,000 music downloading appeal, but the penalty is itself unjust   Woman loses $222,000 music downloading appeal, but the penalty is itself unjust Icon_minitimeTue Sep 11, 2012 9:26 pm
A Minnesota woman accused of sharing songs online owes record companies $US222,000 for willful copyright violations, a US federal appeals court has said, reversing a lower court's ruling in a long-running lawsuit over music downloading.

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A three-judge appeals panel ruled that Chief US District Judge Michael Davis erred when he cut the award against Jammie Thomas-Rasset to $US54,000.

The woman's case was one of only two lawsuits to go to trial out of more than 30,000 filed by the recording industry in a drive to stop the unauthorised free downloading of copyrighted music, which the industry says has cut deeply into its revenues. The vast majority settled for about $US3,500 apiece.

The US Supreme Court in May refused to hear an appeal by former Boston University student Joel Tenenbaum of a $US675,000 award in the other case, but he has vowed to keep fighting.
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Juries ruled against Thomas-Rasset in three separate trials since the industry sued her in 2006. Davis said the last award, of $US1.5 million, was "severe and oppressive."

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/us-woman-loses-222000-music-downloading-appeal-20120912-25r7r.html#ixzz26DMbxBj6
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