September 25, 2008

From Wired:

U.S. District Judge Michael Davis of Duluth, Minnesota, declared a mistrial in the case of Jammie Thomas, a Minnesota mother of three, setting aside the $222,000 penalty levied by a federal jury last year for copyright infringement -- $9,250 for each of the 24 infringing music tracks she made publicly available on the Kazaa file sharing network.

Thomas was the only RIAA conviction, and now that has been overturned due to confusion over what the level of proof is. It does not appear that the "making available" argument is going to be enough. That is going to make the RIAA's job a lot tougher, which I obviously have no problem with.

-Tom