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Remarkable third trial coming for RIAA’s first P2P defendant
When Jammie Thomas (now Thomas-Rasset) became the first alleged P2P file-swapper to take her case all the way to trial and verdict, no one suspected that she would actually have three trials and verdicts, but that’s the case today, as the RIAA rejected a federal judge’s decision to slash Thomas-Rasset’s damage award. Instead, we’re headed to a truncated third trial on the issue of damages. The recording industry also made it clear this week that both Thomas-Rasset and Joel Tenenbaum (the second P2P defendant to go to trial and verdict) are, in its view, quite terrible people: lying, deceiving, irresponsible, and unreasonable.
Continue reading »Lily Allen is OK with Fans Buying Her Burned CDs
After being at the core of the file sharing debate between artists and announcing her retreat from it later due to the “abuse” her blog was getting as a consequence of her views posted there, Lily Allen joins the issue again. This time she says that she is not against people getting burned copies of her CDs as long as they pay for them. “If someone comes up with a burnt copy of my CD and offers it to you for £4 I haven't a problem with that as long as the person buying it places some kind of value on my music,” she told Key 103 .
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