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Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a single mother of four, was ordered to pay nearly $2 million in damages to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for the illegal downloading of music over the Internet. The court's ruling was made on June 18, 2009. Rasset will have to pay $80,000 for each of the 24 songs she downloaded from peer-to-peer file sharing sites.
Thomas-Rasset was first sued by the RIAA in 2006, she was ordered to pay $222,000 in 2007 but a new trial was ordered because the judge "erred in giving the jury instruction."
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Fast Facts:
- Age: 32 years old in 2009
- Resides in Brainerd, Minnesota
- Sued by the RIAA in 2006
- Accused of illegally downloading music over the Internet
- Was found liable in December 2007; ordered to pay $220,000 for 24 illegally downloaded songs
- Judge granted a retrial
- In the June 2009 trial; Thomas-Rasset was ordered to pay $80,000 per song; for each of the 24 songs
- Total amount owed to the record industry was just under $2 million
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@the_torch Kiwi Camara was Jammie Thomas-Rasset's defense lawyer, but that's a different case. Stephanie Lenz was represented by the @EFF.
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