{"id":218105,"date":"2010-01-23T08:46:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T13:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freakbits.com\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2010-01-23T08:46:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T13:46:28","slug":"riaa-victim%e2%80%99s-1-92-million-fine-reduced-to-54000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218105","title":{"rendered":"RIAA Victim\u2019s $1.92 Million Fine Reduced to $54,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/freakbits.com\/media\/riaa.jpg\" align=\"right\" alt=\"riaa\" \/>Last Summer Jammie Thomas lost her retrial against the RIAA and was ordered to pay $1.92 million for 24 songs she shared via Kazaa. Many were shocked by the high amount of the fine, and so was Judge Davis who now lowered the fine to $54,000.<span id=\"more-1414\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to Judge Michael Davis the damages are <a href=\"http:\/\/recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/jammie-thomas-verdict-reduced-from-192m.html\">lowered<\/a> because the initial fine was &#8220;so grossly excessive as to shock the conscience of the court. A verdict is not considered excessive unless there is plain injustice or a monstrous or shocking result.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The result is that, if Thomas is able to pay anything at all, the RIAA will have &#8216;only&#8217; $54,000 to add to their anti-piracy funds instead of the $1.92 million it was awarded initially.<\/p>\n<p>RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy previously informed us that the \u2018damages\u2019 will not go to any of the artists, but to more anti-piracy campaigns. \u201cAny funds recouped are re-invested into our ongoing education and anti-piracy programs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The RIAA has 7 days to challenge the reduced verdict and request for a new trial.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Tenenbaum, the Boston student hit with $650,000 in damages back in July 2009, has filed for a new trial earlier this month, also because of excessive damages.<\/p>\n<p>Article from: <a href=\"http:\/\/freakbits.com\">FreakBits<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Summer Jammie Thomas lost her retrial against the RIAA and was ordered to pay $1.92 million for 24 songs she shared via Kazaa. Many were shocked by the high amount of the fine, and so was Judge Davis who now lowered the fine to $54,000. According to Judge Michael Davis the damages are lowered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4087,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4087"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}