DoJ says $222,000 damages in filesharing trial not unconstitutional →
https://marco.org/2007/12/04/doj-says-222-000-damages-in-filesharing-trial-not
Hopefully the presiding appeal judge disagrees with the Department of Justice’s brief.
“[G]iven the findings of copyright infringement in this case, the damages awarded under the Copyright Act’s statutory damages provision did not violate the Due Process Clause; they were not ‘so severe and oppressive as to be wholly disproportioned to the offense or obviously unreasonable,’” concludes the DoJ.
It’s reasonable to charge someone $222,000 for having 24 songs in her KaZaA shared folder?