(CNN) -- A federal jury Thursday found a 32-year-old Minnesota woman guilty of illegally downloading music from the Internet and fined her $80,000 each -- a total of $1.9 million -- for 24 songs. Illegal downloads of musical files will cost a Minnesota woman $1.9 million, a jury has decided. Jammie Thomas-Rasset's case was the first such copyright infringement case to go to trial in the United States, her attorney said. Attorney Joe Sibley said that his client was shocked at fine, noting that the price tag on the songs she downloaded was 99 cents. She plans to appeal, he said. Cara Duckworth, a spokeswoman for the Recording Industry Association of America, said the RIIA was "pleased that the jury agreed with the evidence and found the defendant liable." "We appreciate the jury's service and that they take this as seriously as we do," she said. Thomas-Rasset downloaded work by artists such as No Doubt, Linkin Park, Gloria Estefan and Sheryl Crow. Don't Miss Steven Van Zandt on - Leo Laporte

Dumbfounded this is still happening. - Eric

I cannot believe I live in the state that has idiots large enough to think that this woman has a chance to be able to pay what they are asking.... - Chris Ames

oh come on, let the poor woman off the hook, sure its illegal, but dont charge her with $1.9M, give her a slap on the wrist and tell her not to do it again. and this is for 24 songs? heck, why dont they go after the people who are downloading full length HD movies and who have thousands of songs downloaded, those are the people who should be fined or jailed, not a woman who downloaded only 24 songs. - Bryce Campbell

Really?!?! - David Cook

It's publicity and the labels think it's a lesson for others. In a sense it's advertising, $1.9mil is sacrificed (I agree, Chris, she can't pay this) for negative publicity. The labels don't give a damn that in their quest to make an example of this poor woman they are financially ruining a human being unnecessarily and unreasonably. This is when justice becomes a bully. - Jack&Cleo

Sadly the jury is the one that thought that $80k a song was a valid price to pay. - Chris Ames

$80k/song! Pure lunacy. How could the judge even say her fine with a straight face? - Shane

...and this will further alienate music consumers. RIAA continues to remain out of touch. - jbrotherlove

Is this women rich? So, they decided to fine her 80,808 times for one song and for all 24 a total of 1,939,393.94 times the worth of the songs. Wow, it's bigger business in making money from taking people to court. - Academic PCs

It must be the depression that we are in - Academic PCs

I'd love to see the artists of the songs she downloaded to pull together the fine for her as say 'screw you' to the label companies. Of course, that will never happen, but would be fun to read. - Jess

When it comes to stories like this, the "Like" feature of FF doesn't come across the right way. - George S.

Yea add to it that at the 99cents itunes business model it would mean to lose that much that those songs would have to have been downloaded from her PC almost 2 million times. - Chris Ames

As the original 2007 verdict was judged to be "wholly disproportionate" and "oppressive" this verdict is most likely to be judge "insane". - visibleprocrastinations

That's just plain nuts! - Kevin J Hatton

did she download from various sites on the internet or just from one? - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Doh... there's no way! How did they come up with 1.9 million? - Torp

The US legalsystem never stops to amaze me, how much would the fine be for a plain robery? It just don't make any sense! - Björn Fritz from Nambu

Is it possible to do the payment the piratebayway? Via micropaymemts that end up costing more for the recepient in fees, now wouldn't that be fun ;) - Björn Fritz from Nambu

It's hardly imagined in P.R.China! - BrianQin

There is something not quite right about the reporting of this case. On the one hand she is accused " of illegally sharing 24 songs from artists including Sheryl Crow and Green Day.". On the other she is accused "of uploading 1,700 songs to the Kazaa file-sharing site before it became a legal service." Would the honourable gentlemen of the press please find out which of these heinous crimes the obscene fine is attributed to and report back. Thank you. - Gilbert Harding

And what would the RIAA do if everyone with an Internet connection started "pirating" music? Are they going to file a class-action lawsuit against the consumers? RIAA vs. the People. That's rich. Just another bunch of hoodlums in suits, that's all. I say micropayment them into bankruptcy. - John Fox

Bet she wishes she had that original 220K judgement back... - Eric

[sarcasm] That'll teach people to not appeal or retry their cases![/sarcasm] - Barry Biddlecomb from twhirl

@Barry Biddlecomb Yes how dare she not tie up our court system fighting frivolous lawsuits brought on by filthy rich corporate sleaze that just can't ever get rich enough, ruled upon by high priced back pocket judges. - Nathan Mylott

I hear ya Barry. Its all about strategy with these guys (lawyers) and one has to see the truth in your sarcasm and that this became about 'the lesson'... - Eric

The RIAA are still suing people? Haven't they learned after years that it's bad for them? - Jeffrey Allan Boman

that is so ridiculous I can't even comment on this ... dang! - Susan Beebe

I read this story and was floored that a jury was dumb enough to award this. I guess suing and winning more than $1 million decision from divorced women with 4 kids is what the RIAA wants to be known for. I guess that's good PR for them? If I were the RIAA I'd want to keep stuff like this off the radar. This is only further advances the idea that the recording industry is in its death throes and it has to pick on people to make its case. Better they should spend some time thinking up new working models for the music industry rather than chasing down people for things they did that basically aren't even relevant anymore. The conversation is moving on. NIN, Radiohead and others are trying to offer alternatives. I think the artists themselves will come up with the solution while the RIAA chases its own tail into oblivion. - Lon Cohen

Why do I get the feeling that RIAA is kicking in agony? - andrei_c

Is the award of $80,000 per song constitutional? - Gil Francisco III

it´s crazy - marcos

It is totally crazy that they would fine her $80K per song - i can understand a fine but not destroying someone's life - it's like they are trying to punish one woman for millions of people's crime - it's not right. - Robert Freeze