World’s Dumbest File Sharer loses lawyer, sells knickers

Things are looking up for the World’s Dumbest File Sharer, Jammie Thomas, who became the first American to go to court in a P2P case in October

A jury of her peers found Thomas guilty of copyright infringement and set a fine of $222,000 – but now she’s been dumped by the person most responsible for leaving her in this predicament (apart from Jammie herself) – her attorney Brian Toder.

It was Toder who foolishly advised her to make a principled fight of the matter in court – thereby turning what would have been a $2,000 tax into a candidate for bankruptcy. And it was the sheer ineptness of Toder’s defence strategy that led the jury to conclude she was taking the p!ss.

(The no nonsense, blue collar jury resented having their time wasted, they later revealed).

Now Toder, who was working pro bono, is cutting his losses and will no longer represent Jammie. P2P site TorrentSpy notes that Toder was a maritime law specialist and describes his performance as “a frankly lacklustre non-existent defense”.

The news was announced over Christmas on the website Thomas has set up to sell merchandise to raise money for her defence fund.

Here you can buy a Jammie Thomas thong (illustrated below) to help fight the good fight. No, they don’t say “World’s Dumbest File Sharer” – but like a good PC, they do appear to have plenty of room for expansion.

And who says P2P file sharers are mean spirited philistines who don’t like putting their hands in their pockets? Free Jammie has raised $1,189.57 in the past nine weeks alone.
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