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Retrial: Jammie Thomas vs. RIAA Goes Into Its Last Round

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Jun 17, 2009

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Jammie Thomas vs. Capitol is probably the most infamous and longest running illegal file sharing case in the U.S., and while a judge declared a mistrial last September, the two parties met once again this week to begin Thomas' retrial. In almost every other file sharing case, the defendants settled with the RIAA out of court, but when Jammie Thomas was accused of illegally sharing 24 songs on the once incredibly popular Kazaa P2P network in February 2005, she decided to fight back. Since then, the two parties have gone through a trial, conviction, a mistrial, and now the retrial of Thomas is well under way and just entered its second day.

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Jammie Thomas' defense has always rested on the argument that she didn't actually download and distribute any of the files on her computer, and that the RIAA never successfully proved that she was the actual user who downloaded and shared the files. During the retrial, however, Thomas also claimed that she didn't even know what Kazaa was until the trial.

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