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Jammie Thomas: Settling with record labels would not have been right
Posted at 2:52 PM on October 15, 2007 by Jon Gordon
The Minnesota woman ordered to pay $220,000 to record labels for "making available" 24 songs for download on the Kazaa network tells her hometown newspaper, the Brainerd Dispatch, that fighting the industry all the way to trial was a no-brainer.
"It's part of my upbringing. My dad always taught me you have to stand up for yourself if you think you're right and that's what I'm doing," Thomas said in an interview Sunday. "I could have easily settled before any of this happened and paid them the $5,000 they wanted, but on the other hand I couldn't pay them for something I didn't do. In my mind it wasn't right for them to even ask me to."
Unfortunately, the article is behind a registration wall. You'll have a hard time getting to it unless you want to share your name, address, birth date, and gender with the folks in Brainerd.
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