RIAA's $222,000 verdict in Capitol v. Thomas set aside. Judge rejects 'making available'; attacks excessive damages

[RayBeckerman]

Story : http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2008/09/riaas-222000-verdict-in-ca

"The Court would be remiss if it did not take this opportunity to implore Congress to amend the Copyright Act to address liability and damages in peer to peer network cases such as the one currently before this Court."

[Maestro120]

Great GREAT news.

Now hopefully she gets a competent lawyer this time around who would be able to give her decent advice and not let so many country bumpkins get on the jury.

[MrFredPFL]

outstanding. looking forward to reading the entire decision, but i like what i see so far

[Ashibael]

Great GREAT news.

Now hopefully she gets a competent lawyer this time around who would be able to give her decent advice and not let so many country bumpkins get on the jury.

You have that right. Really, what you want on a tech trial like this, contrary to popular belief and stereotype, is a well-educated jury who owns computers and is on the internet, who knows how easy (as I do) it is to tap into someone else's internet (even if they don't have a wireless network) and make it appear that they are downloading stuff illegally when it is not really them.

[MrFredPFL]

do you honestly believe she didn't do it? that a hacker happened to use the same name on kazaa that she uses for her personal email?

this is not about whether or not she did it - it's about the insanity of the statutory damages for what she did.

[piXelatedEmpire]

a win for sanity

[Downloader]

that a hacker happened to use the same name on kazaa that she uses for her personal email?

No, but maybe after gaining control of the machine he simply used her kazaa to d/l the files locally and then picked them up at his/her convenience. I know it's not probable that those events happened but it is possible.