From the New York Times
Labels Win Suit Against Song Sharer
By JEFF LEEDS
Published: October 5, 2007
"In a crucial legal victory for record labels and other copyright owners, a federal jury yesterday found a Minnesota woman liable for copyright infringement for sharing music online and imposed a penalty of $222,000 in damages...
The verdict represents at least a symbolic victory for the Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group that has coordinated the music labels’ expensive legal campaign, which has recently suffered some highly publicized setbacks...
The lead plaintiff was Capitol Records, a label owned by the EMI Group. The three other major record companies — the Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and the Warner Music Group — also had songs involved in the suit against Ms. Thomas."
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