A Minnesota woman at the center of the first major file-sharing copyright case to go to trial must pay $9,250 for each of the songs she allegedly downloaded and shared, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday.

"The protection of copyrights is a vindication of the public interest," wrote the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, in approving a total of $220,000 in damages for 24 tracks shared on the now-defunct Kazaa service. (Mostly '80s and '90s, including Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me," Journey's "Don't Stop...