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Jammie Thomas-Rasset is set to pay $9,250 for each work she downloaded. Illustration: Carol and Mike Werner/Alamy A Minnesota women, one of the last people to be individually prosecuted in the US for illegal downloading and file-sharing, faces a $220,
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As with Jammie Thomas before him, he was not a good defendant, and had too many factors that clouded the key questions concerning the statutory damages rates in copyright law. Even worse, he lied to the court and his lawyers seemed more focused on
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Valencia, Globe Staff A federal judge has refused to alter a jury's $675,000 judgment against a Boston University graduate for illegally downloading music...Zobel ruled Thursday that jurors properly weighed evidence in 2009 before determining Joel
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US man fights for his right to download but supreme court won't hear appeal Joel Tenenbaum was ordered to pay $675,000 for 30 songs he downloaded a decade ago after being sued by four labels Joel Tenenbaum. The case will now return to a federal
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The Supreme Court won't reduce the $675,000 verdict against a Boston University student who illegally downloaded 30 songs and shared them on the Internet. The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from Joel Tenenbaum, of
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Infringement Rolling from the or-the-trolls-win dept You may recall that, in the case of Joel Tenenbaum -- who is in a legal battle with some major lbels for file sharing -- a jury awarded the labels $675,000 for the sharing of just a few songs. The
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We've been arguing for a while now that the choices by Joel Tenenbaum and his lawyers in his file sharing case haven't made much sense. They've been arguing the case in a manner that basically begs the court to go against them...Back in September,
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Ever since the days of the cassette, anyone listening to the Top 40 could bootleg tracks off the radio in varying degrees of quality. Unless you attempted to flog these DIY tapes down a car boot sale, you'd never be caught. For the more adventurous,
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In the age of iTunes and an-app-for-everything, Joel Tenenbaum's battle with the music industry over illegal downloading seems as relevant as an eight-track cassette. But it turns out the fight could produce something surprisingly enduring: a change
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Joel Tenenbaum is known worldwide as a young student at the Boston University involved into a landmark trial.Today it seems that the Recording Industry Association of America has gained another $675,000 from Tenenbaum.
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