"Thomas, an employee of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, an
Indian tribe, was ordered to pay a 9,250-dollar fine for each of 24 shared songs cited in the case, including Godsmack's "Spiral," Destiny's Child's "
Bills, Bills, Bills" and Sara McLachlan's "Building a Mystery."
It could have been a lot worse.
The fine could have reached 150,000 dollars a song if the jury had found "willful" copyright infringement.
Had the
record companies sued her for all 1,702 songs found in the online folder the fine could have run in the millions."