Students are Marshall University are getting a rude awakening from the RIAA says The Herald-Dispatch
Unfortunately for the students who have been targeted (a group that apparently includes both downloaders and sharers), minimum damages that the RIAA can request under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is $750 per infringement. For students who have hundreds of songs on their computer, that could mean hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines.
Wow, $750 for a song. Some say that these are merely scare tactics. If I was one of these students from Marshall, I sure as hell would be scared.
There is one up side, if you want to call it that. From what I’ve read these guys can settle for $3,000. Now that’s all well and good, but these guys are college students and if their college is anything like what I remember my experience being, it was hard enough to come up with tuition money each semester. So I don’t know where they’re going to get three grand in 20 days. But I guess it beats the alternative.
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