Lawyers for Jammie Thomas-Rasset, who was found guilty of infringing 24 copyrighted songs on the Kazaa file-sharing network, urged a federal judge to overturn the $1.92 million judgment or give her a new trial.

Third option placed by the lawyers for Jammie Thomas-Rasset, was to reduce the award to the statutory minimum of $18,000, which would allow RIAA to call it a victory and $18,000 would prove severe punishment to a single mother.
 
The motion, filed today in Minnesota federal court said that the verdict in this case was shocking as for 24 songs available for $1.29 on iTunes, the jury assessed statutory damages of $80,000 per song.

However, Thomas-Rasset wasn't charged just for violating the reproduction right found in the Copyright Act, but she was also accused of violating the distribution right by putting the songs up on KaZaA for millions of others to download.

Lawyers for Thomas-Rasset also claimed that Judge Davis allowed evidence to be presented by an outfit called Media Sentry. Lawyers said that Media Sentry broke private investigator rules and all of its evidence should not be relied upon as Media Sentry had not acquired a license to do business in Thomas-Rasset’s home state of Minnesota.
 
In case Media Sentry evidence is not allowed then it would be hard to predict which way the wind will blow.