Obama Supports $675K File Sharing Verdict
January 20th, 2010 admin

The Obama administration is backing $675,000 in damages a Massachusetts student must pay the Recording Industry Association of America for file sharing 30 songs. The Justice Department, where President Barack Obama has tapped five former RIAA lawyers to serve , said copyright infringement “creates a public harm that Congress determined must be deterred.” The administration’s court filing Tuesday is the latest in the case of Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University graduate student who was the nation’s second defendant to go to trial against the RIAA on file sharing charges. Most of the 30,000 civil cases the music industry has brought have…
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The Obama administration is backing $675,000 in damages a Massachusetts student must pay the Recording Industry Association of America for file sharing 30 songs. The Justice Department, where President Barack Obama has tapped five former RIAA lawyers to serve , said copyright infringement “creates a public harm that Congress determined must...
A federal judge on Friday slashed by 90 percent the damages a jury awarded the recording industry in a lawsuit against a university student caught file-sharing. The judge declared the original $675,000 award as “unconstitutionally excessive.” U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner reduced last year’s verdict to $67,500, or $2,250...
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Whitney Harper must pay the RIAA $27,750 for file sharing that began when she was 14 A federal appeals court is ordering a university student to pay the Recording Industry Association of America $27,750 — $750 a track — for file sharing 37 songs when she was a high school cheerleader. The decision Thursday by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court...
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