On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:51:59 -0400, Home Guy wrote:

Oren wrote:

"...A federal judge has lowered a file sharing verdict to $54,000
from $1.5 million, ruling Friday that the jury’s award “for stealing
24 songs for personal use is appalling.”

The decision by U.S. District Judge Michael Davis follows the third
trial in the Recording Industry Association of America’s lawsuit
against Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the first file sharer to take an RIAA
lawsuit to a jury trial. Under the case’s latest iteration, a
Minnesota jury dinged her in November $62,500 for each of 22 songs
she pilfered on Kazaa"

"Most of the thousands of RIAA file sharing cases against
individuals settled out of court for a few thousand dollars.
The RIAA has said it has ceased its 5-year campaign of suing
individual file sharers and, with the Motion Picture
Association of America, have convinced internet service providers
to take punitive action against copyright scofflaws, including
terminating service."

....but it's perfectly legal, eh?