File Sharing Lawsuit
"Somebody" was part of the 24 songs, for which the first file-sharing copyright infringement lawsuit brought by major record labels to be tried to a jury. Jammie Thomas, single mother of four, was found liable in a 2007 trial for downloading the 24 songs from Kazaa and ordered to pay $222,000($9,250/song) in damages, in a second trial, in 2009, a jury again found against Thomas, this time awarding $1,920,000($80,000/song) in damages.
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