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...interview with The Crimson yesterday, RIAA Spokesperson Cara A. Duckworth said Tenenbaum’s illegal activity goes beyond the Twitter post...
...motion filed in a Massachusetts federal court, the RIAA argued that Tenenbaum has violated this summer’s ruling—which ordered him to pay $675,000 for file-sharing—by encouraging other internet users to engage in sharing activity and it asked that Tenenbaum be prohibited from promoting sharing...
...RIAA argue that Tenenbaum promoted the torrent and other illegal downloading activity, in violation of the ruling against him, with a post on a Twitter account devoted to his legal case called JoelFightsBack. “Interesting: a “joel” torrent list of the 30 songs is now on thepiratebay/other torrent sites and is being DL widely in protest,” Tenenbaum wrote...
...Under the 1999 Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act, plaintiffs are awarded from $750 to $30,000 in 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...
...While wryly acknowledging Nesson's appeal, calling him an "eloquent speaker," RIAA attorney Timothy M. Reynolds argued that the "size and scope" of Tenenbaum's file-sharing constituted a willful violation of copyright laws, referring to him throughout the closing statement as simply "the defendant...