RIAA Bites Themselves In The Ass!

[djcraig]

Tanya Anderson of Portland, Oregon has been awarded $103,000.00 to cover court costs and legal fees stemming from the RIAAs unsuccessful prosecution of her last summer. The RIAA plans to appeal and still faces a case of malicious prosecution.

Meanwhile a MInnesota judge is considering granting an appeal to Jamie Thomas, who was the first P2P defendant to face a jury trial for illegal file sharing.

Thomas was originally ordered to pay $222,000.00 in damages. The appeal judge is citing a potential "error of law" as to whether making a track available in a shared folder on a P2P network is an infringement. Arguments for a new trial begin July 1.

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[glokstadt]

Alright! Good news! [:)]


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[SomebodySomewhere]

Good.

Hope they lose the rest of their cases AND music sales plummet another 20% next year.

[Frank_Chickens]

All that lot will do is point at the declining singles sales (which have been for years) and the growth of P2P and other ways to get music and point out that piracy does hurt the industy.

While conveniently ignoring the fact that CD Album sales in the UK and US have gone up to record highs since the Internet have allowed people to try before they buy.

When was the last time you heard the labels reducing the prices of their CDs? Also, when was the last time you heard the movie studios declaring how much profit the make on DVDs?


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