RIAA Wins $675,000, or $22,500 Per Song
Ars Technica, July 31, 2009
By Ben Sheffner
A Boston federal jury has ordered Joel Tenenbaum to pay a total of $675,000 -- $22,500 per song -- to the major record labels for willfully infringing 30 songs by downloading and distributing them over the KaZaA peer-to-peer network.
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