-------- Original Message -------- Subject: RIAA Tops 10,000 File-Sharers Sued; Article on File Sharing Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:20:55 -0500 From: Cam Barker <cambarker@private> To: <declan@private> I wanted to let you know about an article on excessive penalties for file-sharing, written by me and posted at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=660601 The paper argues that the file sharers sued by the RIAA have a constitutional right to pay much smaller penalties than the millions of dollars they can be liable for under copyright law's minimum damages of $750 per song. With the RIAA breaking the 10,000-person barrier this week in its lawsuits against file sharers (see http://sharenomore.blogspot.com/), and with no indication of slowing down, it seems timely to look at how much the recording industry is recovering in these lawsuits. Such a right to pay smaller penalties could reduce the settlement pressure on file swappers and could change the economics of the RIAA's mass litigation. If this is something you'd like to post to Politech, that would be great. Feel free to contact me with any questions. Sincerely, Cam Barker _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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