STUDENT FINED $675K FOR DOWNLOADING 30 SONGS
POST by NVus
This makes me think twice about downloading any music online…
VIA CLEVELAND LEADER
Back in June, a woman was ordered by the court to pay $1.9 million for illegally downloading 24 songs, the highest fine to date for such a crime. The songs, which cost 99 cents on iTunes and other similar music services, continue to fetch a high price in fines for those caught downloading and distributing them illegally. Now, a Boston University student has been socked with $675,000 in damages for illegally downloading and distributing 30 songs.
Joel Tenenbaum, 25, of Providence, RI admitted to a federal court that he downloaded and shared more than 800 songs, but the court case focused only on 30. Tenenbaum’s case is just the second of its kind to go to trial in the U.S.
The award for each song granted to the four record labels involved yesterday is near the legal limit of $30,000 in damages per track, but is still far off from the maximum $4.5 million that jurors could have awarded. If the jury had found that the infringements were willful, they could have claimed up to $150,000 per track
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