Jury Orders Boston U. Graduate Student to Pay $675,000 for Illegal Downloads

by E Wayne Ross on August 3, 2009

The Chronicle: Jury Orders Boston U. Graduate Student to Pay $675,000 for Illegal Downloads

A federal jury on Friday ordered a Boston University graduate student to pay four music companies $675,000, one day after the student, Joel Tenenbaum, admitted in court that he had downloaded and distributed more than two dozen songs that did not belong to him.