Jammie Thomas - Single Mother Loses To Big Record Labels

I will never buy an album again.

In the first US trial to challenge the illegal downloading of music on the Internet, a single mother from Minnesota was ordered Thursday to pay 220,000 dollars for sharing 24 songs online...

Thomas, an employee of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, an Indian tribe, was ordered to pay a 9,250-dollar fine for each of 24 shared songs cited in the case, including Godsmack's "Spiral," Destiny's Child's "Bills, Bills, Bills" and Sara McLachlan's "Building a Mystery."

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[Savannah7531]

In this day and age when child molesters get 6 months probation and OJ Simpson goes free for 2 murders, I find incredible that the music industry would try to make an example of this woman. For god's sake, she made a mistake. She's a single mother of four. Charge her $500 and send her on her way. Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan spend 15 minutes in jail for cocaine possession. We've all made mistakes in the past whether it was accidental or intentional. Get over it.

[Idoloish]

I fucking hate how hardworking people can get their lives ruined by downloading music, yet no talent clowns profit from copyright infringements every fucking day with lame ass "remixes".

[mandy26lez]

@theAbeElement probably all of them bunch of hypocrites!

[mandy26lez]

@SexSteakSoda I will NEVER buy music either! they can kiss my ass! It was ok when they were charging consumers $20-$25 bucks for a cd now record companies are getting what they deserve!

[Doronsmovies]

@vevoumgwmg You are a fucking asshole, i bet you support sopa and pipa too. Yea she got what she deserved, are you seriously going to sue someone for 1,5 million for some crappy songs god.

[cfetzner]

So if I watch a music video on youtube am I going to be sued? pretty much the same thing you're getting it off the internet and listening or watching it...its a fucking joke ......At some point you should think our government should do something to stop this...oh wait......our government...even bigger joke !!!

[94darklord]

@johnaiton okay i felt scared when i had 150 dollars on my ipod

[vevoumgwmg]

Thank goodness for once justice has been served.

People like this need to be heavily fined and the pirate here has got what she deserved.

[follownicholas]

The amazing thing is that the RIAA has NOTHING to do with the artistic aspect of the music. All they do is advertise it and profit off of it. They are a bunch of fucking corporate pricks who have a monopoly on the industry. A new competing organization needs to be formed to put an end to this type of bullshit.

[brammatie1]

FUCK YOU FUCKING RIAA CUNTS!!

[PopCulture20]

Why sue the women instead of suing the person that made the music ACCESSIBLE for her and the public????????????

[isjet]

@dhhs91 why everybody say you have to upload? thats not the truth, Let me say it this way. You downloaded one thing and there is nobody that downloads the same torrent. Then there isnt a need to seed. Also u could turn off uploading. or? its a hidden sharing thing?