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A federal jury awarded six recording companies $222,000 Thursday in Virgin v. Thomas, the first music file-sharing lawsuit to go to trial, ordering Jammie Thomas to pay for sharing 24 copyrighted songs on the Internet. Record companies have filed over 26,000 lawsuits since 2003 over file-sharing, resulting in small settlements for most cases, including 8,000 cases filed against 17 defendants worldwide last October.
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/10/recording-labels-win-first-illegal-file.php

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