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June 17, 2009

File-sharing Retrial Testimony Wraps Today: 'I didn't even know there was a Swedish death metal genre'...

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The jury was also treated to an extraordinary display as Thomas-Rasset said that a distinguished computer science professor was brought in to give “false testimony” against her (there were gasps in the courtroom and an immediate objection from the record companies at this), then broke down crying, detailed the “complete nightmare” the case has made of her life, and claimed that the labels initially “tried to extort $5,000 from me.”

Her testimony, which also featured such memorable phrases as “I never downloaded Morbid Angel’s ‘World of Shit’” and “I didn’t even know there was a Swedish death metal genre,” was certainly spellbinding.



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