Wes Phillips

Industry Update

<B>Jammie Thomas Appeal:</B> Just weeks after having been found liable for <A HREF="http://stereophile.com/news/100807jammie/">$220,000 in damages</A> for allegedly offering 24 music tracks on her KaZaa account, Jammie Thomas has filed a notice of remittitur with the US District Court for the District of Minnesota, asking the judge to slash the jury's damage award, contending that she should receive a retrial that assesses the damages based on the <I>actual</I> damages suffered by the labels resulting from her making the files available.

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The Sandbox

I read <I>Slate</I> primarily to catch my colleague Fred Kaplan's "War Stories" column, but whenever I read Fred, I also go to Garry Trudeau's "The Sandbox," a milblog that allows military personnel stationed in Iraq and Afganistan to "vent, rhapsodize, and [inform] the folks on the home front . . . what is going on from their point of view."

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