Most expensive 24 songs ever

Tyler Aviss tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Thu Oct 11 20:38:15 UTC 2007


It's an interesting case. I wonder how much of assigning the penalties
was based on interpretation of the actual damages, and how much was
just that jury members were disgruntled that the defendant supposedly
thought she'd "put one over them." The jury interview seems to
indicate a certain amount of personal vendetta in the amount.

On 10/10/07, Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 06:53:31AM -0400, Paul King wrote
>
> > Why the choice of this woman? I also wonder if there was any evidence
> > that someone else used her computer to download tunes. The article
> > didn't seem clear.
>
>   My understanding is that every other case where the defendant has
> pled not guilty, the RIAA have eventually dropped charges, after causing
> the defendant to run up a large legal bill.  Apparently this case was
> so-o-o-o-o-o-o obvious that the RIAA were willing to risk going to trial,
> where they backed off every other time.
>
>   Unlike Canada, in the USA, it's OK for jurors to talk to the media
> about what went on in jury deliberations.  There is an article about one
> juror's reaction (warning for the squeamish; use of F***-word) at...
> http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/riaa-juror-we-w.html
>
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