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What happened to the families sued by the RIAA?
I've read that the RIAA was suing tons of families a couple years back, but it's difficult to dig up what actually ended up happening.
Did these families end up on the streets, or were they sued only minorly? (ie, required to pay a "smaller" amount of cash that wouldn't necessarily put them on the streets?)
Basically, I'm trying to figure out if it would be safe to say that the RIAA destroyed many families (or if the families could just pay off the debt gradually or something). Not sure how the process of suing works on that level.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Most defendants have opted to settle out of court by paying "settlement fees" of around $3000.00. A few have opted to fight it out in court, some successfully, others have lost and ended up owing more. One recent interesting development is that the investigative company employed by the RIAA to examine the computers belonging to defendants are not licensed private investigators, and more and more states are requiring this. Michigan for example recently enacted this. This means that they might have a tough time getting their forensic evidence admitted in any cases there.
