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Old 06-19-2009, 09:51 AM   #1
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Single mother music pirate ordered to pay

Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a single mother of four from the US state of Minnesota, was found liable for using the Kazaa peer-to-peer file-sharing network... for illegally downloading 24 songs...

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Old 06-19-2009, 12:54 PM   #2
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Re: Single mother music pirate ordered to pay

Maybe she could apply for a bailout!
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Old 06-22-2009, 08:21 AM   #3
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Re: Single mother music pirate ordered to pay

$80k a song? Sounds like those 6 record companies are giving themselves a bailout!
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Re: Single mother music pirate ordered to pay

Those numbers would only make sense in a world where they proved that she had distributed each of those 24 tracks to about 20,000 people on average.
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