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Apparantly the RIAA is suing a Russian filesharing company - for 1.65 trillion dollars.
www.redherring.com/Articl...+for+%241B
tech.cybernetnews.com/200...-trillion/
I don't think they are likely to get that much money. 1.65 trillion dollars is larger than Russia's GDP. It's well over half the US federal budget. (Actually that's a scary comparison in itself.) I don't know how the RIAA figured they lost that much money. The only explanation I can think of is that they've heard that parody is considered "fair use" - so decided to do something beyond parody.

It sounds to me like RIAA is trying to buddy up with yet another baddie of world commerce, the WTO, which has a track record of promoting big business in area that are unable to support it. You know, places where people make pennies on the hour for hard labor, if even that.

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