$675,000 RIAA File Sharing Verdict is ‘Unreasonable’
The nation’s second file sharing defendant to challenge the Recording Industry Association of America at trial is asking the court for a retrial, or to reduce the $675,000 verdict the jury levied for infringing 30 songs. Among other claims, lawyers for defendant Joel Tenenbaum asserted Monday this summer’s verdict was unconstitutionally excessive – an argument, in essence, that a penalty of $22,500 a song is simply too big, shocks the conscience and is “obviously unreasonable.” But that argument is a long-shot at best. A similar one is pending in the Jammie Thomas-Rasset litigation — the nation’s first file sharing case where a Minnesota jury dinged her $1.92 million for 24 songs this summer.
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$675,000 RIAA File Sharing Verdict is ‘Unreasonable’
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