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Originally Posted by valo403
Not necessarily, in this case the jury had a potential range of liability that they could assign. In the first case they chose a much lower number, but that doesn't make this decision incorrect. Oddly, as far as I can tell the correction of the jury verdict actually was in favor of the defendant and made the claim harder to prove. This shows the danger of allowing something to go to a jury. It's just a group of regular people sitting in a room, they could come up with pretty much anything, and so long as it's within an allowable range it will be upheld.
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The worst part is, you can basically guarantee that just about every one of them has come in contact with illegally downloaded music, either directly (I'm sure they were asked during screening, but still), or through their kids (definitely their kids) or other relatives.