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US govt says $1.92M P2P damage award totally fair

// August 16th, 2009 // Tech News

The US Department of Justice has weighed in on Jammie Thomas-Rasset’s $1.92 million liability for damages , calling the amount perfectly constitutional. In fact, Congress intended for such massive damages to fall like a stone upon even noncommercial P2P users. Thomas-Rasset was the first defendant in the RIAA’s 18,000-person war on file-sharing to take her case all the way to trial. After two trials, she ended up owing $80,000 per song, for a total of $1.92 million, an amount promptly challenged as “unconstitutional” by the defense.