[chuckles]

I think it's a ridiculous verdict, but the truth is she had something like 17gigs of songs on her hard drive and a fast dsl. They know she was trading songs for weeks/months, but they decided to only charge her with a handful to save time. They went after the worst of the worst to make it a slam dunk.

Having said that, its still ridiculous.

[weegee]

They can only fine her for the files for which she was on trial. It only serves to bias the jury to say that she had 17 gigs. If they were to sue her for having 3,000 files, the charge would be what? $117million? Might the jury have found the RIAA’s request a bit obsessive/punative?

I will say that I have not read the transcript but if they proved the case that she also acted as a “server” for other people that downloaded the songs then the high fine can be because of her roll in distribution.