case study 2 - Jammie Thomas-Rasset

Jammie Thomas-Rasset didn't know how good she had it. Back in 2007, the Minnesota mother was the first person to be sued by the RIAA for copyright infringement to actually take the case to trial, after she was charged with downloading copyrighting songs through the p2p network, Kazaa. The Thomas-Rasset was found guilty of illegally downloading 24 songs and fined $10,000 for each one.totaling $240,000. Later the single mother was found guilty again and had to pay $80,000 per song. $1.9 million in all. Se told the times " There's no way they're ever going to get that. I'm a mom, limited means, so I'm not going to worry about it now."