The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on Thursday filed a new petition at a Massachusetts Federal Court against Joel Tenenbaum, seeking for injunction over the alleged repeated infringement attempts by the file-sharer.
Tenenbaum, was earlier ordered by the court to pay $675, 000 worth of damages to the record industry, was accused anew by the RIAA of repeated violation of the copyright law by continuously sharing music files using peer-to-peer networks.
The RIAA stressed the illegal activities such as this should be stopped immediately by the court, saying that the suspect continues to share files even if he was already submitted to judgment.
It will be recalled that the federal court sentenced Tenenbaum after being found guilty of illegally sharing some 30 songs or music files over P2P networks.
His case, along with Jammie Thomas-Rasset’s, were the only two illegal file-sharing charges to go on trial in the United States.
Meanwhile, in the new court documents filed by the RIAA lawyers, the group said that Tenenbaum’s lies and deceit would lead to another mistake, saying that the defendant would not stop his file-sharing activities and that the court needs to issue an injunction against him.
The group cited recent sound recordings of Tenenbaum and his promotion of countless copyright infringements by other people.
Meanwhile, Thomas-Rasset on Monday has asked the federal court to slash the $1.92 million verdict against her, saying that the damages award was arbitrary.
Rasset was earlier sentenced by the same court to pay the damages award to the music industry worth $1.92 million after being found guilty of illegal file-sharing and violation of the copyright law.
But her counsels argued the amount imposed against their client was simply “plucked” out of nowhere by two separate juries that handled the case.
They said that the $10, 000 per song and the $80, 000 per song awarded by the first and second juries is just “too arbitrary”.