Court decimates RIAA whipping boy's fine

Joel Tenebaum, the unfortunate college student randomly chosen by the RIAA to be the poster boy for P2P file sharers, has had his ridiculous $675,000 fine reduced by a factor of ten by an appeal court judge. Calling the original fine "unconstitutionally excessive" Judge Nancy Gertner slashed the fine to $67,500, which still represents an eye-watering $2,250 for each of the 30 songs the MAFIAA scapegoat was accused of sharing. The original judgement, which was...