Yeah, I saw this a while ago.  That number is seriously absurd IMO.
Still, makes the RIAA look like a bunch of retards - are they trying to scare people with these cases?  I recall, a few years back, a 12 year old girl being prosecuted for downloading a Wiggles song or something like that...
EDIT: here it is: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/09/09/..._the_face/

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Okay, I wasn't thinking when I wrote the above ^ :/
I guess this sort of thing does spread in the news to get the message across to people.
Still, I never knew you could be fined so much for copyright infringement.

(This post was last modified: 21/06/2009 10:19 PM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)