[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Barcey

Resurrecting an old thread for an update. Not surprisingly they settled for $45 million and didn't admit any wrongdoing. A little under the potential $6 billion.

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/a.../10/c9214.html

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/blogsection/0/125/

So systematic, deliberate, unauthorised commercial release results in a settlement of $150/song from the record companies to the singers and songwriters, but for accidentally making songs available over a peer-to-peer network, a judge ordered a payment of $2,250 per song, the same companies wanted a minimum of $1000/song (so long as the judge's award was voided, so as not to set a precedent), and a jury awarded $62,500 per song....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_v._Thomas

Something is very wrong here.