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Student Must Pay $675K for Illegal Downloads

By Will McCahill,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 31, 2009 5:22 PM CDT

(Newser) – A Boston graduate student must pay $675,000 to the music industry for illegally downloading 30 songs, a federal jury ordered today. Joel Tenenbaum, 25, essentially admitted yesterday to grabbing the music via file-sharing network KaZaA. The fine averages out to $22,500 per song—...   Read full story »

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