Pirate Bay's '$675,000 Mixtape' Irks RIAA

Joel Tenenbaum, the Boston University graduate student fined $675,000 in August for illegally downloading music, has now been called out by the recording industry with encouraging illegal downloading.

Tenenbaum's playlist has somehow found its way to the embattled file-sharing site, Pirate Bay, where online visitors can still obtain the music he was charged with downloading.

"It's a little like him standing on street corner and waving everybody over and saying, 'This guy has a table of illegal CDs and you can pick them up for nothing,'" a recording industry executive told the Boston Globe. Tenenbaum, however, denied that he was responsible for any links to the Pirate Bay site. Pirate Bay has its own trouble with the recording industry and has been ordered to shut down by courts in Sweden where Pirate Bay is located.

In August, Tenenbaum lost a case in a Boston federal courtroom over his alleged illegal music downloading activities. During the jury trial, he admitted downloading 30 songs and was subsequently fined $22,500 for each one. Tenenbaum's attorney, Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson is appealing the decision.

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