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Rapidshare Fined $34 Million and Ordered to Filter Content

Collections society GEMA claims to represent more than 60,000 composers, authors and music publishers worldwide, protecting their copyrights. After a request by the group, The Regional Court in Hamburg has ruled that hosting...

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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 Net News No Comments

What’s next for Jammie Thomas-Rasset?

Now that Jammie Thomas-Rasset owed $1.92 million to the recording industry for sharing 24 songs on KaZaA back in 2005, the case might seem to be closed. In reality, though, Thomas-Rasset still has...

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Monday, June 22nd, 2009 Net News No Comments

Pay Big Music $1,920,000, Jammie told

:- A verdict has been reached in Minneapolis in the first file sharing case to go to trial. Late this afternoon a Minnesota jury decided Jammie Thomas-Rasset must pay almost two million dollars...

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Thursday, June 18th, 2009 Net News No Comments

Jury selected in Thomas retrial: shockingly law-abiding

The file-sharing retrial of Jammie Thomas-Rasset began at 9am Monday morning on the 15th floor of the gleaming Minnesota District Court. The first rows in the gallery were reserved for the press "and...

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Monday, June 15th, 2009 Net News No Comments

When Twitter rules the world …

Significant numbers of people say they wouldn’t touch micro-blog site Twitter with a barge pole. But IOHO, one of these days it’ll be as big and powerful — and as filthy rich...

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Monday, June 15th, 2009 Net News No Comments