Downloading lawsuits 2009

Cases already filed, however, are proceeding to trial. Tenenbaum testified that he had lied in pretrial depositions when he said his two sisters, friends and others may have been responsible for downloading the songs to his computer. Under questioning from his own lawyer, Tenenbaum said he now takes responsibility for the illegal swapping.

I uploaded, I downloaded music I did it," Tenenbaum said. Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Upon demonstrating this infringement in court, the Record Companies would have the legal right to damages far in excess of prior settlement payments. Indeed, in the overwhelming number of instances, the settlement amounts were only a fraction of the minimum statutory damages that would have been due had the case actually been litigated.

So how to explain the discrepancy in the numbers? Has the RIAA contacted 18, people or 35,? The answer, according to an RIAA spokeswoman, is that both numbers are true in their own way. The 18, figure is the number of unique individuals contacted during the course of the campaign, but of course many of these individuals were sued twice—first as Does , and later as named defendants once their identities had been revealed by the ISP.

You must login or create an account to comment. It's worth quoting in full: In cases where PNL [pre-naming letter] recipients settled before being named in individual lawsuits, the people who settled did not receive releases of claims.

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