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Originally posted by Ripsaw
The alternative was potentially $150,000 <<<per>>> each of the 1,000+ songs she downloaded. Plus legal fees. Do the math. You'd settle too.
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False diochotomy.
Another alternative is to force the RIAA to spend a shitload on lawyers prosecuting the case, and then filing for bankruptcy protection.
Any judgment is automatically treated as an unsecured debt, and they have to wait in line with others unsecured debts while basic necessities, governmental and quasi-governmental entities (FNMA, SLMA, etc.), and secured debts get paid first. A single-parent family in a rented apartment (similar to these folks) is likely to have only the computer sold off at auction because everything else they'd have is either of no significant value or is considered a basic necessity. The RIAA's own lawyers would end up doing more monetary damage to the RIAA than the fileswappers do.