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NEW YORK - If you share your music online, perhaps you should start saving now.

Last week we reported on a Minnesota mom who defended herself against the recording industry and got slapped with $1.92 million in fines for sharing 24 songs over the Internet.

Today, Jammie Thomas-Rasset was on CBS' The Early Show to make her case.

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MINNEAPOLIS - $1.92 million. That's the amount a federal jury ruled Thursday that a Minnesota mom who shared music on the Internet must pay the world's four largest record companies. That's $80,000 for each of the 24 songs she was charged with sharing.

“There's no way they're ever going to get that,” said Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a 32-year-old mother of four from the central Minnesota city of Brainerd. “I'm a mom, limited means, so I'm not going to worry about it now.”

Aside from the enormous sum awarded, Thomas-Rasset's case is unusual in that it is national's only file-sharing case to have gone to trial, not once, but twice.

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MINNEAPOLIS - A Minnesota woman who became the nation's only music file-sharing defendant so far to go to trial is getting a replay two years after losing the case.

Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a 32-year-old mother of four and self-described “huge music fan,” will be armed with aggressive new lawyers when her retrial begins in federal court here Monday.

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