MINNESOTA FILE SHARING RETRIAL HANGS IN BALANCE

Lawyers for Jammie Thomas and the Recording Industry Association of America are to meet within days to see if they can hammer out a settlement agreement to prevent a retrial of the nation's first and only file sharing civil trial. A Minnesota jury ordered Thomas to pay $222,000 for sharing 24 copyrighted songs on Kazaa, but the judge declared a mistrial over an error in jury instructions.