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Oct 08, 02:41 PM

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The recording industry hopes $222,000 will be enough to dissuade music lovers from downloading songs from the Internet without paying for them. That's the amount a federal jury ordered a Minnesota woman to pay for sharing copyrighted music online. "This does send a message, I hope, that downloading and distributing our recordings is not OK," Richard Gabriel, the lead attorney for the music companies that sued the woman, said after a recent civil trial. Jammie Thomas, 30, a single mother from Brainerd, was ordered to pay the six record companies that sued her $9,250 for each of 24 songs they focused on in the case. They had alleged she shared 1,702 songs in all. Related links:

* www.riaa.com:

The Recording Industry Association of America is the trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry.

* http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com:

Lawsuit-tracking blog.

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