Mother of two takes on RIAA in first piracy trial
By Jonathan Schlaffer
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.
The Times Online is reporting that Jammie Thomas is accused by some of the world’s larges record companies of illegally sharing music using Kazaa P2P software. The RIAA alleges that she shared nearly 2,000 tracks of music with full knowledge that it was illegal.
If she loses the case there could be fines reaching $1.2 million and the RIAA thinks it has the case in the bag. Ms. Thomas claims she has done nothing wrong and is the first of some 26,000 people that the RIAA is after to end up in court.
Regarding this mess, she said, “I do know that I didn’t do this, and the jury will hear that I did not do this.”
She may be the first to face “the beast” that is the RIAA in court but thousands others have settled out of court. The RIAA says of those that did settle “speaks to the clarity of the law” but the argument the only reason they did so was because the stakes are higher at a trial.
Many that settled only faced to pay a few thousand dollars whereas in a court case, if lost, could face fines of hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, not to mention the associated legal fees.
Ms. Thomas says that she refuses to be bullied. I’m right there with her and hope that things go in her favor.
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