
Minneapolis' 30-year-old single mother, Jamie Thomas, became the first American woman convicted of file sharing on the Internet. According to the record companies, Jemmy has posted about two thousand files with music pieces to the Kazaa file-sharing network. However, the court considered a list of twenty-four songs that were judged last Thursday: Jemmy must pay $ 9,250 for each file or $ 222,000 in total.
Here is the list:
Guns N 'Roses - "Welcome to the Jungle", "November Rain"
Vanessa Williams - "Save the Best for Last"
Janet Jackson - "Let's Wait Awhile"
Gloria Estefan - “Here We Are”, “Coming Out of the Dark”, “Rhythm is Gonna Get You”
Goo Goo Dolls - "Iris"
Journey - “Faithfully” og “Don't Stop Believin '”
Sarah McLachlan - Possession, Building a Mystery
Aerosmith - "Cryin '"
Linkin Park - One Step Closer
Def Leppard - "Pour Some Sugar on Me"
Reba McEntire - "One Honest Heart"
Bryan Adams - "Somebody"
No Doubt - “Bathwater”, “Hella Good”, “Different People”
Sheryl Crow - "Run Baby Run"
Richard Marx - "Now and Forever"
Destiny's Child - "Bills, Bills, Bills"
Green Day - "Basket Case"
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Record companies that have won a lawsuit against Jemmy Thomas:
EMI Group PLC's Capitol Records Inc .;
The Arista Records LLC label as part of Sony BMG Music Entertainment;
Vivendi SA's UMG Inc. and her label Interscope Records;
Warner Bros. Records Inc. as part of the Warner Music Group Corp.
At present, 26,000 Americans have filed similar claims.
update: I’ll transfer it to music, because habrapost can be attributed as a counterstrike to this:
habrahabr.ru/blog/music/26847.html