Sunday, September 23, 2012

The Recording Industry's Crusade Against Regular People Validated By $222,00...

via Gizmodo by Mario Aguilar on 9/11/12

Today an appeals court helped the RIAA extort $222,000 from Jammie Thomas-Rasset for distributing 24 songs on the internet. The original verdict called for a preposterous penalty of $1.92 million. Sure, this new amount of just under $9,000 a song is lower, but ugh, it's still absurd and horrible. More »


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