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A Boston University student has been ordered to pay $675,000 to
four record labels for illegally downloading and sharing music.
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Lawyer defends song swapper in Mass. download case
A lawyer for a Boston University graduate student accused of
illegally distributing music online says his client was "a kid who
did what kids do" when he swapped songs. Attorneys in U.S. District
Court in Boston gave opening statements Tuesday in the recording
industry's lawsuit against 25-year-old Joel Tenenbaum of
Providence, R.I.Tenenbaum, represented by Harvard Law professor
Charles Nesson, is accused of downloading and distributing
thousands of songs, though the case focuses on 30.Recording
industry lawyer Tim Reynolds says song swappers such as Tenenbaum
seriously damage music labels.Tenenbaum is only the second
music-downloading defendant to go to trial. Last month, a federal
jury ruled a Minnesota woman must pay $1.92 million for copyright
infringement.
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ust when we thought the allegedly illegal downloading case taking
place up in Boston couldn't get any stranger, it did. The BU
graduate student being sued by the recording industry for illegally
downloading music online admitted on Thursday from the witness
stand yesterday that he infringed on the copyrights of the 30 songs
at issue in the federal case.
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that music. That is, it made the label's music more valuable. You
would, normally, think that this is a good thing that the labels
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talking about here. All they seemed concerned with is making sure
that any time you get more value out of music, that you pay more.
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Breaking: Woman Ordered to Pay 1.92M for Illegal Downloading
Wowza. The RIAA has brought 30,000 suits against alleged
file-sharers, but only one has gone to trial. Today, the RIAA won
big. A 32-year-old Minnesota woman woman was found liable for
illegal file-sharing and ordered to pay 1.92 million in damages.
That amounts to 80,000 for each of the songs Jammie Thomas-Rasset
was accused of downloading.
Hollywood Docket: RIAA piracy case to Supreme Court?; Kirsten Dunst's purse; Albert Einstein is buff!
The Supreme Court has been asked to review an alleged music
pirate's "innocent infringer" defense. In February, a college
student was ordered to pay the RIAA $27,750 for sharing 37 songs.
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