After four years of legal wrangling, Swiss authorities have settled on a fine to be paid by the operator of ShareReactor, a link site that worked with the eDonkey file sharing software until it was shut down in 2004 following (or during) a police raid.
Like SeeqPod, ShareReactor hosted no files, but rather linked to files stored on other servers, which is probably why the damages were so low. But since the site hosted no music, I'm surprised the total wasn't lower.
To put this in perspective, here's how the judgment stacks up against that of Jammie Thomas, who did host files:
$4200: Amount owed by Christian Riesen (a.k.a. Simon Moon) for running a file sharing site with 250,000 members and 7 million monthly page views in Switzerland.
$222,000: Amount owed by Jammie Thomas for sharing 24 songs on Kazaa in America.
