RIAA Wants to Increase Damages to $1.5 Million per Album. LOL

RIAA already attempts to get $150,000 per album shared, which from what I understand, they can rarely collect the full mount of because most people sharing could never afford that much money, ever. Let alone for multiple albums. But, because they have decided apparently, that once you can’t actually collect a retardedly huge amount of money, that the best way to fix that is to make it even more retarded. So…
Welcome to the $1,500,000 penalty club. By trying to push the PRO-IP Act through Congress, RIAA (satan) is trying to increase the statutory damages for compilation albums to a whopping $1.5 million. So if you get busted for sharing an album with 10 different artists on it, you are pooched for $1.5 million.
Personally I think that this move is to correct an original mistake that RIAA probably made, by accidentally dropping a zero on the original damages request.
Interestingly, this also presents the opportunity for limits on damages to the still silly sum of $1.5 million. Since after all, most people don’t actually share out an album, but instead share out a boatload of songs, couldn’t their entire hard drive be considered a Compilation Album? Really, what constitutes an album anymore? Could you not get around the album penalty by sharing only 9 out of the 10 songs that are on an album? Then you could only get hit for the per song penalty. And if it gets over 1.5 million, just claim that you have created a 800Gig compilation album.
Lawyers make me laugh lots.
BTW, if my blathering saves you from more that 1.5mil in damages, send me some nice beer.
Via Gizmodo