Judge Orders New Trial in Music Piracy Case
The RIAA still has trouble pushing through court cases of music piracy. According to an article from the AFP:
A US judge has ordered a new trial for a woman convicted of pirating music on the Internet and denounced the awarding of 222,000 dollars in damages to record companies as “wholly disproportionate” and “oppressive.”
At issue here wasn’t the guilt or innocence of the defendant, but the amount of damages awarded to the record companies. To force music pirates to pay hundreds of thousands in damage for pirating twenty-four songs is certainly excessive. The punishment doesn’t fit the crime.
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