The man who failed in his bid to effectively have all filesharing declared legal has been fined $675,000 for copyright infringement. But there are legal and financial factors which make it unlikely Joel Tenenbaum with ever hand over the full amount.

The man who’d hoped to rewrite the rulebook on filesharing is now certain to be convicted. Joel Tenenbaum’s hopes now lie with a sympathetic jury awarding minimal damages.

A man accused of illegal filesharing who argued his behavior was covered by fair use provisions has had his main defense thrown out. It’s a major blow to those campaigning against the record industry.

The woman fined $1.92 million for sharing 24 songs on Kazaa has called for either a reduction in her fine or a third trial. Meanwhile the record industry wants Jammie Thomas-Rasset permanently banned from using filesharing services.

Perhaps the RIAA’s recent $2 million victory in a lawsuit against a single mother of four will begin to change the minds and hearts of America in the battle over digital music, copyrights, and file sharing.

Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire. Jammie Thomas today finds herself owing the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) almost $2 million in awarded damages after losing the retrial she was granted for her alleged copyright infringements. She owed $222,000 after the first trial, and now the figures involved have risen sharply.

The case of a woman found guilty of sharing copyrighted music via Kazaa and fined $222,000 has returned to court. The original verdict was thrown out after complaints the jury was ill-advised over the meaning of a term used in the relevant legislation.

Remember the three day Thomas trial that resulted in a $222,000 verdict in favor of the RIAA’s legal thugs? It seems that the judge has now overturned the verdict of the federal jury in the case, citing that the jury was given an incorrect instruction that led to the erroneous verdict.

The Motion Picture Association of American (MPAA) said last Friday that by demanding proof of copyright infringement, they run the risk of being unable to compensate copyright holders. "It is often very difficult, and in some cases, impossible, to provide such direct proof when confronting modern forms of copyright infringement, whether over P2P networks or otherwise,” said MPAA attorney, Marie L van Uitert.

Is the music industry finally getting the hint? That’s apparently the case as Warner Music boss Edgar Bronfman recently expressed his regret in attacking the very consumers keeping his business alive. 

You may be familiar with our coverage of just about everything involving Jammie Thomas but what we have not touched on yet is exactly why the RIAA was able to win the case.  In many cases the RIAA urges the accused to settle out of court for a couple thousand dollars and be done with it but when it comes to going to court, the RIAA will only go with cases that it knows it can win without a doubt.

The woman who was fined $222,000 last week for music piracy, has announced she will be appealing the ruling.

The jury only took four hours to come to its judgment in the Capital Records, et al v. Jammie Thomas case, and while not as bad as it could have been, it still was a distinct victory for one side.

As we reported yesterday and today, the case of the Capitol Records, et al v. Jammie Thomas continues on, and it appears it is now ready to go to the jury, but with some new twists.

The RIAA has accused a 30-year-old mother with two children from Minnesota and have chosen to take the case to court rather than settle out of court.