RIAA trial verdict affects your children and you.

To all who download music and your Parents,

If you haven't followed the news lately a very important verdict has been reached by 12 jurors. The jurors found Jammie Thomas guilty of copyright infringement through her illegal actions of downloading music. They fined Ms. Thomas $9,250 per illegal song on her harddrive. Resulting in a fine of $220,000 for 24 illegal songs.

This plus the other 20,000 cases that are either currently being negotiated or are already completed in the United States should warn us about the importance of teaching our children that we are responsible for our behavior on the Internet.

Some programs your children may be using to download music illegally (if they are on their computer that is what they're using it for) are: Bearshare, Limewire, Morpheus, and Ares.

If you would like to read the article on the court case visit:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071004-verdict-is-in.html

You can search for P2P file sharing to learn more about the programs used in this illegal activity.