Jammie Thomas-Rasset

Here’s One Way to Get People to Pay for Music: Labels Win $2 Million Verdict in Downloading Trial

Peter Kafka in Media on June 19, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Don’t want to pay $1 for a song on iTunes? Try $80,000 a pop. That’s what a federal jury in Minneapolis has told a woman to pay the music industry for illegally downloading 24 songs, bringing her total bill to $1.92 million. Her response: “Good luck trying to get it, because you can’t get blood out of a turnip.”