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Another short-term victory for the sue-your-customers business model:
The recording industry Thursday won the largest judgment so far against consumers who illegally download music over the Internet when a federal jury ordered a 30-year-old Minnesota woman to pay $222,000 for copyright infringement.
Full story here. Reason's coverage of the downloading wars is here.
Update: Declan McCullagh explains why the bill is so absurdly high.
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