Return to this post at 11 a.m. PST on Wednesday for a live video chat in which I will discuss and answer readers’ questions about the Recording Industry Association of America’s five-year litigation campaign.
While my Threat Level colleagues are toiling away exposing security and privacy breaches, I’ll be on Justin.tv discussing the ins-and-outs of an RIAA lawsuit. The standard of proof required to find you liable for copyright infringement depends on which judge you’re in front of, and damages can be as high as $150,000 per copyrighted music track.
As a roadmap, we’ll use the Jammie Thomas litigation – the nation’s only file sharing case to go to trial. We covered the Minnesota federal trial gavel to gavel last year and have a deep understanding of the legal machinations at the heart of peer-to-peer file sharing litigation.
The RIAA’s campaign has ensnared more than 30,000 people. Don’t become another number.
Sketch: Norman Quebedeau
