By David Kravets The Recording Industry Association of America on Monday urged a federal judge to leave intact a $222,000 jury verdict against Jammie Thomas, the Minnesota mother of two who has become a public symbol of the RIAA's litigation campaign of more than 20,000 copyright lawsuits against peer-to-peer file sharers. The RIAA echoed its sister lobbying group, the Motion Picture Association of America, by telling the Thomas judge that solely making available copyrighted works on a peer-to-peer network is enough to prove unauthorized distribution with fines of up to $150,000 per violation. Any higher standard of actual proof, the RIAA said, would "cripple" copyright enforcement in the digital age. "Requiring proof of actual transfers would cripple efforts to enforce copyright owners' rights online – and would solely...
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