RIAA Wants $1.5 Million If You Copy A CD

[mandy]

Not content with the current (and already massive) statutory damages allowed under copyright law, the RIAA is pushing to expand the provision. The issue is compilations, which now are treated as a single work. In the RIAA's perfect world, each copied track would count as a separate act of infringement, meaning that a copying a ten-song CD even one time could end up costing a defendant $1.5 million if done willfully. Sound fair? Proportional? Necessary? Not really, but that doesn't mean it won't become law.
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The change to statutory damages is contained in the PRO-IP Act that is currently up for consideration in Congress...

full article: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/200...nough.html

[jezebel]

The RIAA is the music industry's own worst enemy.  :

[regic]

copying a ten-song CD even one time could end up costing a defendant $1.5 million

How many CDs ever sell that much?
(answer: hardly any)