Rejecting an out of court settlement can be a very bad decision if you are a file sharer. Jammie Thomas has been ordered to pay $222,000 in damages after losing a US court case in which she denied unlawfully sharing over 1500 songs through the KaZaA service.
The award was decided by a jury in Minnesota, who heard evidence about the IP address and log on name which were associated with the copyright infringements. Over 20,000 cases have been brought in the US against file sharers using KaZaA and similar systems to share copyright music, but this is believed to be the first to go to a full jury trial.
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