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The RIAA has won another case of copyright infringement against a Jammie Thomas-Rasset for willfully infringing on 24 copyrights held by four major record labels at a massive $1.92 million in “damages.”

This was the outcome of the retrial, as the original decision was to award the RIAA with $9,250 per song. According to Ars Technica, the jury felt that Thomas-Rasset was a liar and thus handed down the harsh penalty.

The RIAA was able to clearly identify the MAC address of both her cable modem and Ethernet card, her username, and noted that she recently received a hard drive replacement. Jammie was unable to sway the jurors from this amount of evidence, leaving them unconvinced of her innocense. However, she didn’t plan on paying the RIAA. “They did their job… I’m not going to hold it against them,” she said. “Good luck trying to get it from me… it’s like squeezing blood from a turnip.”

“So Dante Stallworth pays $200,000 for driving drunk, speeding, and killing a man plus he gets 30 days in jail. This girl downloads songs and gets $2,000,000 and no days in jail. What a lovely justice system we have here. If only she had killed a human being she could have gotten off much much easier.

Something to note here that isn’t in this article is that the RIAA tried repeatedly to settle with this girl out of court for as little as $3,000. $3,000 might seem like a lot of money but the RIAA had evidence of over 1,700 songs being downloaded or shared which comes out to about $1.70 a song. The girl refused to settle out of court and took her chances in court. The RIAA didn’t hand down the judgment of $80,000 a copyright, a jury of OUR peers did. The girl and whoever was in the jury both need not reproduce.”