Online music file-sharing retrial begins -- Digital Music -- InformationWeek

The long and drawn-out campaign by the Recording Industry Association of America to stop what it calls illegal downloading of music gets a second test beginning Monday when the RIAA retries its case against Jammie Thomas-Rasset.

The trial, which begins Monday in Federal Court in Minnesota, is a remaining vestige of the RIAA's long campaign to stop aspects of online music downloading that it deems illegal. Thomas-Rasset, a 32-year-old mother of four, was convicted in a jury trial in 2007 of illegally downloading and distributing 24 songs via Kazaa...