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The lawsuit against 25-year-old student Joel Tenenbaum is putting the whole digital generation on trial, says Harvard law student Debbie Rosenbaum of the group Joelfighstback.

Tenenbaum, a PhD candidate at Boston University, has been ordered to pay $675,000 for downloading seven tracks and distributing them on the Internet.

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