http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10440602-261.html

whether or not jammie thomas is a commie or not is beyond me, all i know is that filesharing rules this country
pun intended being or not of sound shape or jammie did not share those files of her own free will instead she lucradized her own shadow of doubt and made mainstream a religion

let jammie share files and let her be done with it

"I could certainly see a court being persuaded that this shouldn't be the judge's decision," Howell said. "If the jury had awarded something above the range, then I think the decision would be ironclad. But that's not what happened. The judge looked at this and said, 'You know what? Even within this range, this amount is out of whack for what the actual damages might have been.'"

what is howell talking about and what is the judge and what is jammie thomas saying denise

people cannot write their left and right brain thinking centers are a mess

all i know is we have one brain missing one lopped off arm and a jury who did the wrong thing by awarding money to the riaa! fuck the riaa and the assholes too! fuck em'

now that we got that outta the way all i know is that the worlds sucks

let's all share files let's all sell files and let's all tell the riaa to go fuck itself! beeyatches!

now that file sharing is legal and we all know what good files are now that the isp internet service providers have all the power in the world to oppose even the righteous one's by allowing us to file share and not kick us off the internet for sharing files jammie thomas can go home safe knowing that full well the boogie man is coming you use long english words like sedentary to keep me sitting on my ass

shove it dr. kovorkian for sharing files

now being that i may sit here battered with distress and simply wait i see though that this every goodly frame the earth is this air mind you that this goodly frame the earth mind you hurts

so sit down in a chair and write your favorite congressman and die right

die hard with a vengeance

release

knowing karma you'll accuse me of filesharing of which i am guilty

i file share and i live with plenty of people who do

file sharing is a decent thing to do in this society but we love it

just file share

let jammie go with a small fine then pay her reparations for being confined in small places

just shove it..

i like it alot

So is the RIAA finally realizing how stupid and pointless it is sue everyone???? Are the old geezers finally waking up and smelling the coffee???

The funny thing about juries is that they are more times than not so, so eager to convict. Most jurors feel that they are serving justice by convicting, they seldom understand the balance between punishment that truly fits the crime and the crime or harm itself.

Case in point, one can make a sound argument that Thomas' file sharing folder was exposed. However, based on what I have read, I could not with reasonable certainty state (and for this I think no one can really) that at any given time and while Thomas' file sharing folder was vulnerable, that anyone downloaded files from her shared folder. That was never proven. I think that is what the RIAA should have to prove in a court of law, atleast if they are seeking damages from this person or anyone for that matter.

I mean if no one actually downloaded anything off of Thomas' folder then the RIAA has not really suffered any damages and $80, 000.00 seems far excessive. It should be the RIAA's burden to prove this and not the other way around.

Jurors are lay people, they are not experts in the legal field. And a pep talk by a prosecuting attorney, plus the definition of what it means to be a trier of law vs a trier of fact by the Judge will not make a juror all that more informed in the legal proceedings ahead of them. Often times Jurors receive these "Braveheart" styled speeches that make them feel like they are paladins of some sort of champions of justice. Little do they realize that behind all the flattering words, they are all just stringed puppets for both sides.