Now here is quite the unforunate story — Apparantly, a woman by the name of Jammie Thomas was found guilty back in 2007 for sharing 24 songs over Kazaa and was then ordered to pay $222,000.

Well, the woman was put on trial yet again this year at a Minnesota court and was again found guilty but this time ordered to pay an astounding $1,920,000 in damages. Thats a full $80,000 per song!

To stand unbiased on the situation, Mrs. Thomas was issued a cease-and-desist letter by the RIAA, which she refused to do. So remember boys and girls, crime never pays, even if it involves the non-violent act of downloading a couple songs.

Read (Gizmodo)

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Now before you get your pirate hats on and head for your favorite bittorrent tracker, please take note; this announcement doesn’t necessarily make it any safer, or legal, than it previously was to pirate. OK, now that we’re done with that onto the news.

It was recently brought to the media that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) will cease prosecuting individual file sharers for downloading music. Instead, they have decided to take a different initiative, focusing on big uploaders and repeat offenders.

So now, if you download music and/or share it excessively, the RIAA will contact your ISP who will then take appropriate action, which may include shutting off your internet. That is, if you get caught.

Read (WSJ)

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