In Arizona, the Associated Press is reporting that an University student could be the first person in the US to be convicted of a crime under state laws for illegally downloading music:

Under an agreement with prosecutors, Dhaliwal was sentenced last month to a three-month deferred jail sentence, three years of probation, 200 hours of community service and a $5,400 fine. The judge in the case also ordered him to take a copyright class at the University of Arizona, which he attends, and to avoid file-sharing computer programs.

I wonder if this will open the floodgates for state prosecutions for these type of violations? Thank the RIAA and MPAA for making the first decade of 2000 the era of bringing lawsuits against their own customers en masse.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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