What’s the value of a song? Jammie Thomas-Rasset has spent the last few
years in court debating that question. The Minnesota mother of four is
being penalized for illegally downloading and sharing 24 songs on the
peer-to-peer file-sharing network Kazaa in 2006, but how much she owes
the record labels has been in question. The jury in her third trial has
just ruled that Thomas-Rasset should pay Capitol Records $1.5 million, CNET reports,
which breaks down to $62,500 per song. It’s a heavy penalty considering
the 24 tunes would only cost approximately $24 on iTunes, which was
Thomas-Rasset’ argument, too.
