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Jammie Appeals, Citing "Excessive" Damages

Posted by kdawson on from the punative-by-any-other-name dept.

Peerless writes "Capitol v. Thomas defendant Jammie Thomas has officially appealed the RIAA's $222,000 copyright infringement award. She is seeking a retrial to determine the RIAA's actual damages, arguing that the jury's award was 'unconstitutionally excessive': 'Thomas would like to see the record companies forced to prove their actual damages due to downloading, a figure that Sony-BMG litigation head Jennifer Pariser testified that her company "had not stopped to calculate." In her motion, Thomas argues that the labels are contending that their actual damages are in the neighborhood of $20. Barring a new trial over the issue of damages, Thomas would like to see the reward knocked down three significant digits — from $222,000 to $151.20.'"

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  1. curious by User+956 · · Score: 2, Funny

    She is seeking a retrial to determine the RIAA's actual damage

    Afterwards, they'll attempt an inquiry to determine the RIAA's major malfunction.

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  2. Re:Sig digs by Atario · · Score: 5, Funny

    I agree. The correct spelling is "viri".

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  3. Re:Almost right. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You're clearly mistaken. That's a period, not a decimal. No meaning was changed. You must be new at /.. The first dot there is a dot, the second one is a period.

  4. Re:Sig digs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    151.20 actually has more significant digits than 222,000. (Perhaps "orders of magnitude" was the term peerless wanted?) While you're technically correct... if you're facing a fine of either $220,000 or $151.20, I think you'll find the difference in the amount to be quite significant.

    (Posting anonymously because this joke doesn't quite have the snap I wanted. Hopefully someone else can fix it up... I'm too tired.)
  5. Ask Verizon to do the math! by Zaatxe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let's see... 24 songs with an average of 5 megabytes each song...
    That's 24*5*1024*0.002 cents, which is 245.76 cents or US$2.46. What about that?

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    1. Re:Ask Verizon to do the math! by Chapter80 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yes $2.46 per bit, but given that roughly half the bits were zero, and half were ones, she was charged $111K per digit.

  6. Re:Sig digs by Snowspinner · · Score: 2, Funny

    He said fix it up, not mod it up!

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  7. Re:It's not virii or viri. by Anonymous+Psychopath · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow. A grammar nazi slap fight. Awesome.

    Moderators, this post is as relevant to the article as all the ones to which I'm replying. Please mod down along with the rest of them.

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