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Lawyer argues illegal downloader only costed $21
More hereA Boston University graduate student who was ordered to pay four record labels a total of $675,000 in damages for illegally sharing 30 songs online caused no more than $21 in damages, said his lawyer, who implored a federal judge today to slash the jury award or order a new trial. Appearing before the US District Court judge who presided over the trial last summer, Harvard law professor Charles Nesson said the 1999 federal law that the jury applied when calculating damages caused by his client, Joel Tenenbaum, had "produced absurd results" and a grossly excessive award that violated Tenenbaum's constitutional rights.
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