Court Overturns Kazaa File Sharing Verdict

MediaPost is reporting that in a dramatic reversal for the record industry, a federal district court judge just overturned a $220,000 verdict against single mother Jammie Thomas.

This is the one where the judge had originally ruled that a defendant could be liable just for making music tracks available on Kazaa. In a new trial, the report said that the RIAA will now have to prove that someone actually downloaded the tracks—hopefully without employing more of the questionable

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