The Jammie Thomas-Rasset playlist
p2pnet view Music | P2P:- Jammie Thomas-Rasset is used to it by now — being brutalised by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s RIAA for sharing music online.
The Big 4 says she’s a criminal and thief, although nothing has been stolen and no crime has been committed.
But that’s the RIAA for you.
With RIAA boss Mitch Bainwol (right) and his consigliere, Cary Sherman, in the lead, they hounded her through the courts until, following her third trial, she’s been ordered to somehow come up with $1.5 million.
For what?
For these 24 songs >>>
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Vanessa Williams – Save the best for last
Sheryl Crow – Run baby run
Reba McEntire – One honest heart
Janet Jackson – let’s wait awhile
Guns ‘n Roses – Welcome to the jungle
Guns ‘n Roses – November rain
Def Leppard – Pour some sugar on me
Bryan Adams – Somebody
Aerosmnith – Cryin
Warner Bros Records
Linkin Park – One step closer
Green Day – Basket case
Goo Goo Dolls – iris
Interscope Records
No Doubt – Hella Good
No Doubt – Different people
No Doubt – Bathwater
Arista Records
Sarah McLaughlan – Building a mystery
Sarah McLaughlan – Possession
Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Gloria Estefan – Rhythm is gonna get you
Gloria Estefan – Here and we are
Gloria Estefan – coming out of the dark
Journey – Faithfully
Journey – Don’t stop believin
Destiny’s child – Bills, bills, bills
Capitol Records
Richard Marx – Now and for ever
“Having been ordered by successive juries to pay the major record labels $222,000, $1.92 million and now $1.5 million for illegally sharing 24 songs, Jammie Thomas-Rasset exemplifies how both extreme and random these damage awards are”, says the Los Angles Times, going on >>>
That’s a consequence of Congress providing statutory damages that range from $200 (for an “innocent infringer”) to $150,000 per infringement. As Ars Technica’s Nate Anderson observed, jurors have no experience with damage awards, and thus have no clue what’s reasonable in the grand scheme of things.
It’s true that the three sets of Thomas-Rasset’s peers in Minnesota who looked at her actions ordered her to pay well above the legal minimum. That doesn’t make the damages they ordered rational. There may be some infringers for whom a $1.5-million penalty is entirely appropriate — a CD or DVD counterfeiting operation, for instance.
But a noncommercial file-sharer?
To help put things into perspective, according to IRS figures, in 2007 Bainwol was paid $1,485,000 for his services. But by 2008, the amount had rocketed to $2,032,072.
Sherman received $1,331,747 in 2008.
Based on the RIAA’s disclosure form for 2008, it paid its lawyers more than $16,000,000 to recover $391,000, observed Recording Industry vs The People’s Ray Beckerman.
But it isn’t about money or music.
It’s about PR and, ultimately, control of the net as the online coporate marketing and distribution machine.
And a multi-million-dollar corporate ‘trade’ organisation representing four foreign multi-billion-dollar corporate music companies — Vivendi Universal (France), Sony (Japan), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (controlled by a Canadian) — in obscene pursuit of one American mother.
Stay tuned.
Jon Newton – p2pnet
$1.5 million – Pay $1.5 million, Jammie Thomas-Rasset ordered, November 4, 2010
Los Angles Times – The RIAA’s latest victory over Jammie Thomas-Rasset, November 5, 2010
rocketed to $2,032,072 – RIAA boss Bainwol paid $2 million in 2008, July 12, 2010
$16,000,000 to recover $391,000 – RIAA spends $16,000,000 to recover $391,000, July 13, 2010
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November 7th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
It’s Sarah McLachlan.
November 8th, 2010 at 2:12 am
Interesting collection. I feel the need to turn it into a playlist.