Originally Posted by drjones

All the information I have seen, hasn't said anything about 1700 file transfers. She had 1700 songs shared. The RIAA chose to take her to court on 24 of those files, with no record or evidence of those files ever being transfered. Two completely different things.

The difference is, taking food from a grocery store causes a tangible loss to the grocery store. Copying a file from one computer to another does not amount to any appreciable loss for the record companies. Thats why its not theft. Just copyright infringement.