Music companies vow to show Minn. woman shared 24 songs

MINNEAPOLIS -- The recording industry is back in court in the nation's only music file-sharing lawsuit so far to go to trial.

Attorney Tim Reynolds told a federal jury in Minneapolis Monday that the music companies will prove that Jammie (JAY'-mee) Thomas-Rasset of Brainerd illegally shared 24 copyright-protected songs on the Kazaa file-swapping network.

Defense attorney Kiwi Camara countered that the recording companies can't prove that Thomas-Rasset illegally shared any songs.

This is second trial for Thomas-Rasset. She lost in 2007, but the judge later gave her a retrial.

The lawsuit is among the last vestiges of an anti-piracy campaign that the recording industry ultimately dropped amid widespread criticism.