RIAA Fines Single Mom $220,000

Not only will the RIAA take your house away, they’ll financially ruin single mothers from ethnic minorities. Despite Judge Michael J. Davis preventing the RIAA from turning his courtroom into their soapbox, the terrorists in suits still had their way.

A Minnesota woman must pay $220,000 to six of the top music labels after a federal jury found on Thursday that she violated their copyright.

Accused of encouraging the illegal sharing of more than 1,700 songs, Jammie Thomas, 30, elected to fight it out with the recording industry instead of settling out of court for far less money. The ensuing legal battle marked the first time the recording industry has argued a file-sharing case before a jury.

Note that the labels have no proof that Jammie actually distributed the files. They fined her just for having those files in a shared folder. Whatever the case, there’s no way in Hell Jammie alone caused $220,000 of damage to the recording industry. This is not a massive bootleg CD operation in Malaysia; this is a Native American single mother of two who put her files in the wrong folder.

Oddly enough, the jury asked to exit from the back to prevent talking to reporters. Wonder how much the RIAA paid them.