A Minnesota woman owes $1.5 million for sharing songs online, says a jury. Last year, a jury imposed an even higher damages verdict on the woman, but a judge slashed it to $54,000.

A jury in a high-profile federal copyright infringement trial on Friday ordered a Boston University graduate student to pay $675,000 to several record companies for illegally downloading and distributing 30 of their songs. Joel Tenenbaum appeared stoic as the jury announced that each of the 30 counts of willful infringement would cost him $22,500. Though steep, the tab is far less than the $4.5 million that the companies could have received had the jury imposed the maximum per-song damages allowed under law.