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Originally Posted by gideongallery
well unless they offer her a sweet heart settlement deal like the one they gave the two kids odds are she will keep appealing
so far each appeal has won and the court case keeps being tried again.
EFF and other trade groups are footing the legal bill on her side, the RIAA is spending their hard earned money each time.
so if you think that spending millions to collect pennies is a win
then go ahead and thing this is a win.
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I'm not going to speak for the RIAA, but I assume what they are hoping is that they get a big judgment like this one and it gets a lot of press and scares a bunch of people into not sharing music anymore. Then later on they quietly settle for a lot less. This way down the road they can send nasty letters to people and those people will see the previous cases and just stop.
But then again the RIAA recently announced that they are no longer going to sue people (at least for the time being) so I assume this idea hasn't worked out too well for them.