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  • The Department of Justice gutted the largest illegal music-sharing site in the US

    09/14/2015 6:15:16 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 22 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | September 14, 2015 | Nathan McAlone
    The US Department of Justice has seized control of Sharebeast, the popular music-file-sharing website. Sharebeast.com was the largest illegal file-sharing site for music operating within the US, according to the RIAA.
  • Illegal Song Sharing Costs Single Mom $1.92 Million

    06/19/2009 11:20:15 AM PDT · by STARWISE · 15 replies · 659+ views
    In what turned out to be a nightmare for the defendant, a federal jury on Thursday ruled that Jammie Thomas-Rasset willfully violated the copyrights on 24 songs. Record companies were awarded $80,000 per song, for a total of $1.92 million. This is the second time Thomas-Rasset went to trial on the matter. The single mother from Minnesota had planned to appeal the first ruling that came down from a different federal court in October 2007. But the judge in that case decided he had given the jury erroneous instructions and a new trial was ordered. Thomas-Rasset may wish she had...