Landmark Case Tests Music Download Policy

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DULUTH, Minn. - In the first trial of its kind, a group of record industry lawyers asked a federal jury empaneled in Duluth Tuesday morning to hold Jammie Thomas of Brainerd responsible for illegally distributing or "pirating" more than 1,700 songs she downloaded from the Internet.

But Thomas' attorney countered in his own opening statement that while the record companies might have evidence that songs were shared from the Internet service provider address assigned to her computer, they can't prove that she was the one using it.

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Landmark Case Tests Music Download Policy

"No one can prove which computer actually did this," attorney Brian Toder of Minneapolis said as Thom...

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