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The RIAA is suing the website AllofMP3.com on behalf of EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music, and Warner Music in the amount of $150,000 for each of the 11 million songs that were downloaded from June to October of 2006. That comes to a lawsuit totaling $1.65 trillion!

If AllofMP3 sells tracks for like a dollar or so, RIAA can't possibly get that kind of return, even if they manage to bribe all the judges, even if a US judgment held water overseas, do they really expect to get a big fat check for $1.65 T? Are all the employees so wealthy that they even have assets in that amount? Obviously the company would fall and the employees won't be jailed since it's a civil case not a criminal one. Can any of the employees ever work any job that will make up that kind of money?

My theory? That way the RIAA can later say "WE LOST $1,649,999,999 ON PIRACY LAST YEAR!!!"

Haw.

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