$1.5 million for 24 songs. The first P2P case to come to trial in the US has lasted five years and now has three verdicts, this one coming after just two hours of deliberation.
Jammie Thomas-Rasset must pay $62,500 for each of the 24 songs at issue in the case, for total of $1.5 million. "We are again thankful to the jury for its service in this matter and that they recognized the severity of the defendant's misconduct," said the RIAA after the case wrapped up. "Now with three jury decisions behind us along with a clear affirmation of Ms. Thomas-Rasset’s willful liability, it is our hope that she finally accepts responsibility for her actions. " The damage award remains staggeringly high—this is two CDs of music we're talking about—but it's still $400,000 less than the previous $1.92 million damage award from Thomas-Rasset's last trial. To put that in context, consider the four file-sharing jury awards issued in the US to date: So will we be doing this again?
675 000 dollars d'amende pour avoir téléchargé illégalement 30 chansons. Joel Tenenbaum, un ancien étudiant, a été condamné par la justice américaine au terme d'un procès de plus de 5 ans.
Cela lui revient à 22 500 dollars par titre. Un tribunal du Massachusetts a confirmé, jeudi 23 août, la sentence d'un étudiant, condamné à payer 675 000 dollars (528 000 euros) pour avoir téléchargé illégalement et diffusé sur Internet trente chansons, soit 22 500 dollars (17 600 euros) par titre. Débutée en 2007, la procédure opposant Sony, et plus généralement l'industrie du disque à Joel Tenenbaum, utilisateur de services en pair à pair, est très suivie. En août 2004, Mediasentry, une entreprise spécialisée dans la traque de téléchargements illégaux employée par l'industrie du disque, avait repéré l'adresse IP (la "carte d'identité" d'un ordinateur sur le Réseau) de l'ordinateur de ses parents. Les maisons de disques avaient alors porté plainte pour le téléchargement illégal de trente morceaux de Green Day, Nirvana, les Smashing Pumpkins et Aerosmith.
675 000 dollars d'amende pour 30 chansons piratées : sanction confirmée. Even Obama Is A Pirate: BMG Issues New Takedown On Original Obama Singing Al Green Clip. Wow. So earlier today, we wrote about how BMG issued a takedown on the new web-based ad put out by the Romney campaign, which included a brief clip of President Obama singing Al Green's "Let's Stay Together. " As we argued, this use seemed to be pretty clearly "fair use. " And, of course, it was noteworthy that BMG only seemed to go after the Romney ad, making it pretty clear that this was politically motivated. The original clips of Obama singing Al Green were all over YouTube... and BMG only chose to go after the one used in a Romney commercial. It appears that someone pointed out to BMG's lawyers that this looks really bad, so rather than backing down, BMG has doubled down and issued takedowns to a bunch of the original videos of Obama singing that one line from Al Green.
The original one that we linked to was actually from the Associated Press, who -- as a news organization -- has an even stronger fair use claim.