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HTTP/2 302 server: nginx date: Sat, 02 Aug 2025 05:11:23 GMT content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 content-length: 0 x-archive-redirect-reason: found capture at 20080605031141 location: https://web.archive.org/web/20080605031141/https://www.eff.org/cases/capitol-v-thomas server-timing: captures_list;dur=1.259930, exclusion.robots;dur=0.022663, exclusion.robots.policy;dur=0.009177, esindex;dur=0.010364, cdx.remote;dur=37.203581, LoadShardBlock;dur=373.050676, PetaboxLoader3.datanode;dur=97.975203, PetaboxLoader3.resolve;dur=247.524869 x-app-server: wwwb-app239 x-ts: 302 x-tr: 488 server-timing: TR;dur=0,Tw;dur=0,Tc;dur=1 set-cookie: wb-p-SERVER=wwwb-app239; path=/ x-location: All x-rl: 0 x-na: 0 x-page-cache: MISS server-timing: MISS x-nid: DigitalOcean referrer-policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade permissions-policy: interest-cohort=() HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Sat, 02 Aug 2025 05:11:24 GMT content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8 x-archive-orig-date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:11:41 GMT x-archive-orig-server: Apache x-archive-orig-expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT x-archive-orig-last-modified: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:11:41 GMT x-archive-orig-cache-control: store, no-cache, must-revalidate x-archive-orig-cache-control: post-check=0, pre-check=0 x-archive-orig-vary: Accept-Encoding x-archive-orig-connection: close x-archive-orig-content-language: en x-archive-guessed-content-type: text/html x-archive-guessed-charset: utf-8 memento-datetime: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:11:41 GMT link: ; rel="original", ; rel="timemap"; type="application/link-format", ; rel="timegate", ; rel="first memento"; datetime="Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:11:41 GMT", ; rel="memento"; datetime="Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:11:41 GMT", ; rel="next memento"; datetime="Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:17:30 GMT", ; rel="last memento"; datetime="Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:37:33 GMT" content-security-policy: default-src 'self' 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline' data: blob: archive.org web.archive.org web-static.archive.org wayback-api.archive.org athena.archive.org analytics.archive.org pragma.archivelab.org wwwb-events.archive.org x-archive-src: 51_3_20080604172203_crawl107-c/51_3_20080605030819_crawl103.arc.gz server-timing: captures_list;dur=0.402522, exclusion.robots;dur=0.014713, exclusion.robots.policy;dur=0.005661, esindex;dur=0.007124, cdx.remote;dur=128.046363, LoadShardBlock;dur=167.503454, PetaboxLoader3.datanode;dur=166.562506, PetaboxLoader3.resolve;dur=146.899723, load_resource;dur=169.400434 x-app-server: wwwb-app239 x-ts: 200 x-tr: 518 server-timing: TR;dur=0,Tw;dur=0,Tc;dur=1 x-location: All x-rl: 0 x-na: 0 x-page-cache: MISS server-timing: MISS x-nid: DigitalOcean referrer-policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade permissions-policy: interest-cohort=() content-encoding: gzip Capitol v. Thomas | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Related Issues: File Sharing, Intellectual Property

Capitol v. Thomas

Last October, Jammie Thomas was found liable for copyright infringement for file sharing, and hit with a $222,000 judgment. Thomas' case was the first file sharing lawsuit to reach a jury verdict.

On May 15, 2008, Judge Michael Davis requested briefing on whether Thomas should receive a new trial. The court said it was concerned that it might have made a mistake by instructing the jury that Thomas could be found liable if she simply made copyrighted songs available in a shared folder. There's good reason for this concern — as EFF noted at the time, and several courts have since affirmed, "making available" is not a cause of action under copyright law. EFF applauds the court's willingness to revisit this crucial question and expects to weigh in as amicus.