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...Boston University graduate student charged with illegal file-sharing has been ordered in federal court to pay $675,000 in damages to four large recording companies, marking another victory for the music industry in only the second such case to go to trial...
...statement, the Recording Industry Association of America, a national trade group that organized litigation against peer-to-peer file-sharing from 2003 to 2008, lauded the outcome of the trial as a "recognition of the impact of illegal downloading" on the music industry...
...statutory damages for each infringement, and up to $150,000 for each case of willful infringement. Pre-trial settlements offered by RIAA-appointed lawyers usually range from $3,000 to $5,000. Before the RIAA's litigation campaign ended last December, about 30,000 file-sharers had paid to settle...
...Counsel for the plaintiffs, by contrast, presented a methodical run-through of the facts, bolstered by expert testimony that the files in question had been downloaded on Tenenbaum's computer and that illegal file-sharing had caused a precipitous decline in the revenues of the recording industry...
...crowd of about 5,000 people did gather on the eastern side of the Wall, according to a June 20, 1988, wire report by West Germany's Deutsche Presse Agentur news service, which is included in the Stasi file. It says that hundreds of East German security forces rushed the crowd in the early morning hours after the concert, and estimates that about 30 people were arrested. (See pictures of the young Michael Jackson in his own backyard...