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Team Tenenbaum to fight on for those "RIAA has screwed over"

// August 9th, 2009 // Tech News

Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson can only shake his head over the outcome of the Joel Tenenbaum trial , a case in which his young client was hit with a $675,000 damage award for uploading and downloading 30 songs. “How can a jury of common sense people be brought to a conclusion that is clearly divorced from its common sense base?” he wants to know. “The law here is off base,” he added, the verdict functioning as a reductio ad absurdum that highlights the problem with applying statutory damages to noncommercial copyright infringers.