Jammie Thomas-Rasset Fined $1.92M for Downloading Music Online

A federal jury ordered a Minnesota woman to pay a fine of $1.92 million Friday for allegedly downloading 24 songs.

The jury found Jammie Thomas-Rasset, 32, liable for file-sharing. She was found guilty in a previous case in which she was ordered to pay $222,000 for the same songs.

The judge of the previous case declared it a mistrial and Thomas-Rasset opted for a new trial to case the charges placed on her by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), instead of settling with them.

The RIAA has filed lawsuits against 35,000 other alleged file-sharers.

According to Wired, Thomas-Rasset, who has proclaimed that she was innocent the whole time, was fined $80,000 for each song in Thursday's ruling. In the latest case, she testified that her four children might have accessed the file-sharing service Kazaa while using her computer. However, in her earlier trial, she believed someone had hacked into her WiFi connection, even though she did not own a WiFi router.

The original suit against Thomas-Rasset, then a single mother of two, was brought in 2006. While the Copyright Act allows for a fine of up to $150,000 per infringement, the average payment in the thousands of settlement cases that have settled out of court is around $3,500.

Among the half-hour worth of songs that Thomas-Rasset allegedly downloaded are Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" and "November Rain," Janet Jackson's "Let's Wait Awhile," Gloria Estefan's "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You," the Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris," Journey's "Faithfully" and "Don't Stop Believing," Sarah McLachlan's "Building a Mystery," Aerosmith's "Cryin'," Linkin Park's "One Step Closer," Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me," No Doubt's "Bathwater" and "Hella Good," and Destiny's Child's "Bills, Bills, Bills."

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