Remember Jammie Thomas, the world’s most famous filesharing user. She was fined $220,000 for making tracks available for filesharing on the Kazaa network. After asking people to buy her thongs to raise money for her cause, Jammie is back in the headlines this week, and it could be good news for her.
This whole story has the potential to majorly shake up the way people are charged for copyright infringement when using filesharing services. We’ve reported several times that judges are starting to question whether making tracks available is enough to warrant being charged with copyright violations.
The judge in Jammie’s case is considering this exact point and Jammie may now get a retrial. The jury in the original case was told that making a track available is enough to be charged, but there is now some serious debate as the whether this should now be the case in a court of law.
Could this finally be the break that Jammie has been waiting for?