I strongly suspect that you're absolutely right there, Steve.
Wow - the average price of a house is only $220,000 in the US? I wish you could buy a house for that here

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Obviously the message that the RIAA want to go out from this is "ignore our warning letter at your peril". People are probably now going to think that paying $2000 (or whatever) is an easy get-off after reading about this court case.