Recording industry wants Minn. woman barred from downloading and sharing music in future
By Amy Forliti, APMonday, July 6, 2009
Industry wants to ban Minn. woman from downloading
MINNEAPOLIS — It’s been just a few weeks since a federal jury ruled in a music-downloading case that a Minnesota woman must pay $1.92 million.
Now, the recording industry wants to make sure Jammie Thomas-Rasset doesn’t do it again.
Attorneys for the recording industry are asking a federal judge to bar Thomas-Rasset from downloading music, sharing music files and distributing songs to the public.
The attorneys also want a judge to order that Thomas-Rasset destroy all copies of recordings that she has downloaded without authorization.
Last month, a federal jury ruled Thomas-Rasset willfully violated the copyrights on 24 songs. In their request Monday, recording company attorneys say she actually distributed over 1,700 songs through a file-sharing network.
Messages left for Thomas-Rasset and her attorney were not immediately returned Monday.
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