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First file-sharing defendant seeks high court reversal (access required)

by Correy Stephenson

Published: December 19,2012

After three separate verdicts and more than five years of litigation, file-sharing defendant Jammie Thomas-Rasset has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Thomas-Rasset was the first target of the Recording Industry Association of America’s campaign against illegal downloaders to go to trial. The RIAA alleged that Thomas-Rasset used file-sharing site Kazaa to download 24 songs at no ...
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