Heh.
The Obama administration for the first time is weighing in on a Recording Industry Association of America file sharing lawsuit and is supporting hefty awards of as much as $150,000 per purloined music track.
The government said the damages range of $750 to $150,000 per violation of the Copyright Act was warranted.
"The remedy of statutory damages for copyright infringement has been the cornerstone of our federal copyright law since 1790, and Congress acted reasonably in crafting the current incarnation of the statutory damages provision," Michelle Bennett, a Department of Justice trial attorney wrote (.pdf) Sunday to a Massachusetts federal judge weighing challenge to the Copyright Act.
hey bamm bamm, quit accepting the freebies, today's music pure trash for a violent culture, 1970's music part of the anti-establishment movement in which JOHN KERRY (D-MA) JANE FONDA, bill Ayers belonged to. why make lawyers ''wealthy'' when you say the rest cant, stick what you know best, being sports guy. As expert in everything else, your record has been lousy dangerous.