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RIAA paid more than $16,000,000 to recover only $391,000!

 
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 2:01 pm    Post subject: RIAA paid more than $16,000,000 to recover only $391,000! Reply with quote
The RIAA paid Holmes Roberts & Owen $9,364,901 in 2008, Jenner & Block more than $7,000,000, and Cravath Swain & Moore $1.25 million, to pursue its "copyright infringement" claims, in order to recover a mere $391,000.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 12:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
The money recovered is irrelevant; the whole sue-em tactic is a scare tactic that is designed to create warning examples. It seems to have worked, somewhat.
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