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".

[Alexander McPheeneforcoke]

Shiiit....

[AnimeFanPan]

lame

[mskiara18]

I wonder how the mom and her children are doing today. Since 4 years has passed, I hope she's not struggling to take care of her family because of this. I don't see why they just can't create a system within video/music sites that can still help them still get paid since this is all a money issue. $9250 for each song... how much of that is really going to the artist I wonder. It's sad they allowed this while real criminals out there are getting fined less than that & not facing a long sentence.

[SmokingEssy7887]

You make an excellent point, take simple marijuana (weed) possession for example. Someone is caught possessing 1 gram of pot and the police arrest the person spend thousands of dollars on prosecuting him/her what a waste of our tax money. If I was a judge I'd give a person with a 1 gram of weed a warning for the first offense and a $25.00 fine for a subsequent offense

[dennismstamps]

support unsigned artists!

boycott the RIAA!

[2JAMMY]

The chiefs of the music industry have used & abused the artists & the public for so long now they seem to have lost their screws - if indeed they actually had any. Satanist's, illuminati types - call them what you want but they can stick their shit back up their hell-holes.

[morrismagic08]

You don't have to download music, you can just plug a tape recorder in to you'r computers headphone jack and press record! You then transfer those songs on to what ever media you want. Basic but thats just one of many ways of avoiding these pricks coming after you and you don't have to pay the extortionate price of a cheap CD that usually starts skipping and misbehaving within a few months! Fuck sopa fuck pipa fuck the greedy music industry, theres always a way, power to the people!

[johnnyrckt]

lol Never ever register on a site you're going to dl music etc from. theres plenty of other ways to get the music also. use an i.p. jammer of some kind. after you're done, unplug your modem for a few minutes this will change you're i.p. address you can use dos to change it also but if you know that then this is useless to you. I wouldn't pay ever. murdering rapist get from 1980 - 2000 the prison pop jumped from 1-500 to 1-100 laws need changing. Constitution is above Federal know it use it.

[digitalbeat666]

Fuck sopa and pipa and everything that is against humans.

[digitalbeat666]

fuck off