The final paragraphs in this piece illustrate what a fiasco it has proved for RIAA to have filed these sorts of suits. It is not filing any more of them. It ha

The final paragraphs in this piece illustrate what a fiasco it has proved for RIAA to have filed these sorts of suits. It is not filing any more of them. It has typically settled the ones it has filed for peanuts ($3,500 on average). And it is offering to settle this particular Minnesota case, in which it had gotten a $1.92M judgment (rejected by the judge as "monstrous and shocking"), in exchange for a $25K donation to charity by the defendant - with the defendant vowing to pursue the case through the appellate courts to challenge the very constitutionality of the stratospheric damages sought be RIAA in such actions. All in all, a disastrous legal strategy for RIAA. At this point, the whole momentum has shifted and they can't wait to get out of it (their election to file a new trial appears to be nothing more than a desperate attempt to save face, if that is still possible). These are all indicators that this particular bully has been cut down to size, at least for the moment.