Update: Jury set in R.I. man's music downloading case
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Get the 7 to 7 on your mobile at www.projo.com. Twitter: projo | RSS | Email alerts BOSTON (AP) - A jury is to begin hearing arguments in a music downloading lawsuit filed by the recording industry against a Boston University graduate student. The industry accuses Joel Tenenbaum, of Providence, R.I., of downloading songs and making music files available for distribution on the Kazaa file-sharing network. Lawyers finished picking a jury Monday afternoon in federal court in Boston. Opening statements are expected Tuesday. Tenenbaum's case is the second such case to go to trial. Last month, a federal jury in Minneapolis ruled that a Minnesota woman must pay $1.92 million for willful infringement of the recording industry's copyrights by posting music on Kazaa. The industry has threatened about 35,000 people with charges of copyright infringement over the past five years, typically offering to settle for $3,000 to $5,000. The original version of this story was posted at 12:12 p.m. 
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Hopefully, the will find him guilty. He is taking food and medical care out of a lot of elderly musicians and songwriters mouths. Many are forced to be performing in their 70's plus just to make ends meet. Yes, the record companies are partially to blame for this, but the piracy just adds insult to injury.
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Is this going to be the new business model for the old recording labels? Collecting large damage awards from people who do not have the ability to pay?
No question the artists should get something for their work. The sharers are at fault on this principle. It's theft.
It might be better to prosecute sharers as criminals/thieves. Th labels can do the investigating and ask the police to act. Stealing above a certain amount - not that large - is a felony.
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I hope the criminal music industry loses this case badly. They are a bunch of stealing criminals themselves....woe the "poor" starving artists - no one cares about you
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Mike: It's o.k. for these pirates to rip off the artists? Who do you think that they get money from? They only get it through litigation with the same music industry you label as criminal. A lot of us DO care about these artists and friends.
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