http://overlawyered.com/2009/06/court-orders-jammie-thomas-to-pay-riaa-192-million/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:26:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://overlawyered.com/2009/06/court-orders-jammie-thomas-to-pay-riaa-192-million/comment-page-1/#comment-52038 R Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:23:10 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=11841#comment-52038 Damages... well, given that online (legit) downloading services charge about $1.00 per song, it follows that the damages (rationally calculated) would be $1 for every instance of those songs being downloaded from his account. It might be as much as a thousand or two, at most. There is no way the actual loss sustained is in the millions. Damages… well, given that online (legit) downloading services charge about $1.00 per song, it follows that the damages (rationally calculated) would be $1 for every instance of those songs being downloaded from his account. It might be as much as a thousand or two, at most. There is no way the actual loss sustained is in the millions.

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