http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20081934-261/jammie-thomas-judgment-lowered-from-$1.5-million-to-$54000/
Jammie Thomas-Rassett, a name whose copyright infringement case has seemingly been in the courts forever, just had the damages she has to pay lowered from $1.5 million to $54,000. Her case is groundbreaking, if you will—it was the "first file-sharing copyright infringement lawsuit in the United States brought by major record labels to be tried before a jury."<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_v._Thomas> Juries ruled multiple times that she was guilty of copyright infringement, but each of the previous times she was set to pay a whole lot of money ($62,500 last time) *per song*. And the judge, each time, found the amount grossly out of proportion and thus unconstitutional. -Adi
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