Yesterday, a federal judge threw out the ... [Reversals]

Yesterday, a federal judge threw out the $222,000 judgment against Jammie Thomas, who was found guilty for sharing a bunch of crappy songs a year ago and ordered to pay the RIAA the aforementioned fine. The judge, Michael Davis, said that he misled jurors when he told them that simply making files available on a peer-to-peer network was the equivalent of copyright infringement, and that there was no proof that Thomas had in fact shared the files. In response, comment sections of Web sites around...

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