File Sharing Mother Carries on the Fight with the Industry

A few days ago we reported on a Minnesota mother who got hammered down ridiculously by record industry’s lawyers and a Minnesota court who ordered her to pay $1.92 million damage compensation for sharing 24 tracks online.

On Monday, Jammie Thomas-Rasset appeared on CBS' The Early Show to make her case.

Thomas-Rasset proved to be a fighter right from the start as she didn’t give in to RIAA’s pressure which got more than 30,000 people into settling outside the court mostly for £1,500 each. Therefore, her case was the first of its kind that went to trial. Back in 2007 she lost the case to the record labels. After a jury decided the RIAA deserved $222,000 damage compensation, the judge dismissed the verdict on grounds of misleading instructions he had offered the jury.

So a second trial was in order. The woman lost this time also and a shocking $1.92 million (which means about $80,000 per song) fine was imposed to her.

Thomas-Rasset soon after the verdict commented – “There's no way they're ever going to get that. I'm a mom, limited means, so I'm not going to worry about it now.”

Below is Thomas-Rasset at The Early Show speaking out against a judicial system that’s increasingly shaking and about her determination to fight a greedy industry. (source cbsnews.com)