RIAA Fears Thomas Keeps On File Sharing
Found on Wired on Tuesday, 07 July 2009
If an $80,000-per-song verdict isn't enough to deter Thomas-Rasset from file sharing, we're not so sure an injunction matters. Still, the RIAA fears the 32-year-old Thomas-Rasset, who undoubtedly has become the world's most notorious copyright scofflaw.
"Furthermore, the nature of defendant's means of infringement - a peer-to-peer file sharing network with tens of millions of potential users - has resulted in the distribution of plaintiffs' copyrighted sound recordings to innumerable other people, who, in turn, are likely to further distribute plaintiffs' sound recordings," Reynolds wrote.
Innumerable. That's the whole point. The RIAA has no way to prove if she actually has uploaded any of those songs. So they just come up with ficional numbers to make people go "ohh" and "ahh". But the industry has never been accurate with numbers. Or even remotely close to reality.