File Sharing Mom Requesting a Third Trial

After losing two trials, the most recent one ending with a court order that says she must pay the music industry a $1.92 million fine, the now famous file-sharing mom Jammie Thomas-Rasset wants to push for a third trial.

P2POn reported the case of the Minnesota woman found guilty of copyright infringement last month for downloading and sharing 24 tracks using the Kazaa file-sharing network.

Rasset called the verdict against her "excessive, shocking, and monstrous" and hopes for better justice which is why her lawyers have filled a motion saying that "the plaintiffs did not even attempt to offer evidence of their actual injuries, seeking, instead, an award of statutory damages entirely for the purposes of punishment and deterrence."

One of the strongest points of the motion is its bringing forward the fact that each of the 24 songs can be downloaded for $1.29 each from iTunes. With a little math this means that the $80,000 per track penalty given by the jury is at least 63,015 times their actual value and "bears no reasonable relation to the actual injury suffered by the plaintiffs."

Jammie Thomas’s lawyers claimed that a reduction of the fine to the minimum $18,000 would be more than enough as a penalty for her client.