Accused Music Pirate Jammie Thomas-Rasset Claims To Never Have Heard of Swedish Death Metal

Jammie Thomas-Rasset broke down in tears while taking the stand yesterday, as her file-sharing retrial came to a close. According to the RIAA, Vivendi Universal, Sony, EMI and Warner Music, Thomas-Rasset is not only a file-sharing thief, but is a "massive online distributor" of copyrighted tunes using Kazaa. Claiming that extortion and false testimony had been used against her by said organizations, Thomas-Rasset went on to proclaim to the jury that she "didn't even know there was a Swedish death metal genre." So how could she have downloaded it? The inconsistencies surrounding Thomas-Rasset's testimonies were indeed many and tear-soaked, but wherever the truth actually lies, the jury has yet to make a decision. Stay tuned... [Ars Techinica]

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