I'm not saying it cant happen, I'm saying its highly unlikely, and further, its careless folks or the uninformed 12 year old who seeds 10,000 songs continuously and indefinitely... there are some horror stories... but if the date is correct, thats purposefully deceptive of bloomberg to say,
4/10/2010
http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...0/07/10/file_sharing_damages_reduced_tenfold/
US District Court Judge Nancy Gertner ruled that the amount a federal jury ordered Joel Tenenbaum to pay last July was "unconstitutionally excessive'' in light of what she described as the modest harm caused to the record labels. She cut the award to $67,500, one-tenth the original sum.
"There is no question that this reduced award is still severe, even harsh,'' she wrote in a 62-page order.
more current news....
US federal judge: IP address not enough to prove someone downloaded pirated movies
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-federal...ove-someone-downloaded-pirated-movies-1496174
Piracy lawsuits face new hurdle after judge rules against mass claims
https://www.rt.com/usa/broad-piracy-lawsuits-judge-rule-437/
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/02/bittorrent-illegal-downloads-ip-address-lawsuit
"I think the trend is towards judges looking at [piracy] cases more carefully than they used to, requiring more upfront investigation," says Mitch Stoltz, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). "There may always be some judges who will simply rubber-stamp these cases…but there are fewer of those judges than before."
When companies bring copyright lawsuits, they often don't know the identities of the alleged pirates. (This was true in the
Dallas Buyers Club case.) Instead, they use IP addresses, unique numbers assigned to each device on an internet network, to track the computers that have been used for illegal downloading. Then they ask a judge to issue a subpoena to the internet service providers, so they can obtain the name of the person associated with that IP address. If the judge approves this request, plaintiffs can make additional demands, such as seeking a copy of the person's hard drive. Armed with this information, the plaintiff then typically forces the defendants to settle. The average settlement ranges from $2,000 to $5,000, says Jeffrey Antonelli, a Chicago attorney who has represented numerous people accused of illegal BitTorrent use.
since they cant do mass claims, and an ip address is no longer enough to identify, its primarily really repetitive uploaders like ETRG & YIFY who are getting traced and busted...
