RIAA Seeks up to $150,000 a Song in File Sharing Trial

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The Recording Industry Association of America is going for the jugular in an ongoing file sharing trial in Massachusetts — urging a federal judge Thursday to clarify jury instructions so panelists would award up to $150,000 in damages for each of 30 songs at issue. The move in the Joel Tenenbaum case suggests the RIAA stands behind its $1.92 million jury verdict against Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the nation’s first defendant to take on the RIAA at a file sharing trial. The RIAA has until August 12 to inform the Thomas-Rasset judge whether the $80,000 fine a jury awarded for each of two dozen songs was so out of whack that it was unconstitutionally excessive.