CCIA Hopes Ridiculous Thomas-Rasset Copyright Fine Brings US ‘One Step Closer’ To Legal Reforms
A picture may be worth a thousand words. But if those words are a song put on a file-sharing network on the Internet, it’s worth $80,000. That’s what a Minnesota jury found yesterday in a retrial of Jammie Thomas-Rasset. She is to pay a fine of $80,000 for each song she uploaded, including Linkin Park’s…