Cara Duckworth

Record industry wins second verdict against Minnesota woman

Note: this article orginally appeared on Bloomberg.com and is included here as a work sample by one of the authors, Tom Wilkowske.

By Susan Decker and Tom Wilkowske

June 19, 2009 (Bloomberg) — A Minnesota woman accused of swapping music over the Kazaa Internet service was ordered by a jury to pay Vivendi SA’s Universal Music Group and other record labels $1.9 million after a retrial.