Student Hit With $675,000 Fine in RIAA File-Sharing Case

[naughtydog]

Joel Tenenbaum has lost his trial against the RIAA and was ordered to pay $22,500 for each of the 30 songs he shared via Kazaa. Tenenbaum, who pleaded guilty to downloading and sharing files earlier this week, will be left paying off the $675,000 to the music labels for the rest of his life.

Student Hit With $675,000 Fine in RIAA File-Sharing Case | TorrentFreak

[SealLion]

I read this on the news and was also quite surprised to have read of it. Well, maybe not really that surprised, but maybe more of having my eyebrows raised.

Apparantly, according to the news report that I read, the recording companies were entitled anywhere's from $750 to $30,000 per infringement.

That's a lot of coin.