Feeling bolstered by the Supreme Court’s indecision on June 27, the RIAA is ramping up is lawsuit campaign on behalf of its member companies. Today, it announced an additional 765 lawsuits against those trading music on the most popular P2P networks. The total number of lawsuits now totals 12,326 individuals – most of which are against Kazaa users.
Source: addict3d.org
Out of those 12,000+ individuals, its interesting to note that none of them have fought the RIAA in court. That means they, for the most part, settled. The average settlement is worth $3,000US. Simple math: that’s $36,978,000 ($3000*12326 sued) in pure profits for the RIAA. With a business model like that, I don’t think that they’ll quit too soon.