March 15, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Sticks and stones may break bones, but words can cost you plenty. Use offensive or insulting ones on Facebook, and you could find exactly how much.
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Tags: Darren Mattox, Facebook, fine, insult
January 28, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
When a judge recently reduced the $1.92 million in damages from a jury verdict against a Minnesota woman accused of illegally sharing 24 songs, music pirates everywhere breathed a small sigh of relief.
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Tags: file-sharing, fine, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, Joel Tenenbaum, jury verdict, music
August 18, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
How much would you say an MP3 is worth? If you asked the Obama administration’s Department of Justice, they’d tell you $80,000 sounds about right.
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Tags: Department of Justice, file-sharing, fine, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, mp3, obama, P2P