Music Industry Wants File-Sharer Barred from Downloading
Lawyers for the Recording Industry Association of America want a federal judge to bar Jammie Thomas-Rasset—who was ordered last month to pay $1.92 million in damages for sharing 24 music files online—from downloading music and to destroy all of the music files she has downloaded.
RIAA attorney Timothy Reynolds wrote in his request to U.S. District Judge Michael Davis that Thomas-Rasset distributed more than 1,700 songs to millions of people, the Associated Press reported.
“Absent an injunction, there is nothing to stop defendant from downloading and distributing more of plaintiffs’ copyrighted sound recordings through an online media distribution system,” Reynolds wrote.
The AP reports that messages left for Thomas-Rasset and her attorney were not immediately returned. However p2pnet news reports that Thomas-Rasset plans to appeal the judgment against her.
“I will admit this battle is wearing me rather thin, but I have to continue as I don’t know of anyone else to have ever reached this point, and we might help to establish a more fair set of laws in a new digital age,” Thomas-Rasset told p2pnet news.
