Jammie Thomas-Rasset to Appeal $2 MIllion RIAA Verdict

Jammie Thomas-Rasset, ordered to pay $1.9 million in fines to the RIAA for copyright infringement, will appeal the ruling, according to her lawyer. This is not surprising, since, once the news of the ruling hit, even those whose songs she downloaded decried the fines as...

Richard Marx Defends Jammie Thomas-Rasset over RIAA $2 Million

Richard Marx is defending Jammie Thomas-Rasset, who was fined nearly $2 million for copyright infringement: $80,000 per song. Marx calls the judgment excessive and abusive. Arguably, the songs in question did not have the resale value that the RIAA claims, particularly at a...

Jammie Thomas-Rasset: Fined $2-Million in RIAA Kazaa Appeal

You may or may not remember Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the woman who lost a lawsuit for sharing 24 copyrighted songs on the peer to peer network Kazaa in 2007.  In the original lawsuit the RIAA was awarded damages...

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