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Unfortunately copyright has "statutory damages". Hence why Jammie Thomas-Rasset was hit with a court order to pay $222,000 to the RIAA (down from almost $2 mill
by icebraining 6y ago
Unfortunately copyright has "statutory damages". Hence why Jammie Thomas-Rasset was hit with a court order to pay $222,000 to the RIAA (down from almost $2 million!) for sharing 24 songs on Kazaa, despite the plaintiff obviously having no chance of proving they actually lost sales from it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records,_Inc._v._Thomas-Rasset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records,_Inc._v._Thoma...