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Court Calls $222,000 RIAA Sentence a “Farce”,Vacates Verdict

tgdaily.com — Jammie Thomas, who was ordered to pay a $222,000 penalty for sharing 24 songs through the peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing network, is off the hook, for now. The United District Court for the District of Minnesota granted Thomas a new trial, based on the findings of a formal trial error.

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  • 1KrazyKorean, on 09/25/2008, -0/+8Seriously hate the ***** RIAA
  • purplesky1000, on 09/25/2008, -0/+3FTW!
  • EmitStop, on 09/25/2008, -0/+3RAPE AND PILLAGE THE RIAA!
  • invalidnot4long, on 09/25/2008, -0/+3Even "THEONE" (NEO).....ya....he was a pirate too..
    look how that turned out.....(we need pirates to stop the machines....C:
  • MarkusX, on 09/25/2008, -0/+2I hope the RIAA finally gets a hard punch in the face, by Congree telling them that they cannot sue indiviuals for these amounts of money.
    An I hope, that not only will they be prohibited to do so in the future, but they have to pay back all the people (or at least retry their cases) who they have ripped off and bankrupted in the past during their crusade against piracy.
  • invalidnot4long, on 09/25/2008, -0/+2RIAAme....C:
  • Zippo, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1I guess when you can't make decent music anymore, suing the ***** out of everyone you can is your new business model.
    ***** the RIAA.

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