<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c2b458c6-02f8-4787-86f8-4094805277a7/24128410-7631-4E74-9B7C-5D4F0AF3C113/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/07/judge-riaa-owes.html" href="http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/07/judge-riaa-owes.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/07/judge-riaa-owes.html"><P><IMG border="0" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/07/17/barringerthomson.jpg" title="Barringerthomson" alt="Barringerthomson" /> The RIAA must pay P2P defendant Debbie Foster $68,685.23 for accusing her of sharing copyrighted music over a P2P network.  Judge Lee R. West had ordered the RIAA to pay these fees <A href="http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/04/debbie_foster_g.html">back in April</A>, but didn't specify a total, which he revealed in an Order (<A href="http://www.ilrweb.com/viewILRPDF.asp?filename=capitol_foster_070716OrderAwardAttysFees">PDF</A>) issued yesterday.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/07/judge-riaa-owes.html"><P>Foster had originally sought fees totaling $114,363.18 but the RIAA objected, claiming that the number of billable hours and the hourly rate were too high, that the case was too simple to cost over a hundred grand to defend, that some of the work was duplicative, and that Foster was "not entitled to fees that could have been avoided had she assisted the plaintiffs or acceded to settlement," among other things.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/07/judge-riaa-owes.html">Besides limiting the fees it owes, it the RIAA succeeded in another, possibly more crucial aspect of the case: not having to disclose what it pays its own attorneys to go after music uploaders.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/24128410-7631-4E74-9B7C-5D4F0AF3C113/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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