PeterStoba
18-05-08, 20:00
A Minnesota woman was ordered to pay $220,000 in restitution – a whopping $9,250 for each of the 24 songs she was accused of sharing. That’s a pretty steep fine for anyone much less a single mother making $36,000 a year. Now the judge in the case has ordered hearings for a new trial (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080515/ap_on_hi_te/downloading_music;_ylt=ApHeZhxUx0CHZPS4q_c4idUjtBA F). U.S. District Court Judge Michael J. Davis said he has found a 1993 ruling that states infringement requires an actual dissemination of the copyrighted material, not merely making the material available. The “making the songs available for download” has been the center of the RIAA’s arguments, but has recently suffered setbacks in other cases as well.