Without further recourse, and until the lawsuit was settled, the RIAA actively sued thousands of people and college campuses across the U.S. for sharing copyrighted music over the network.[18] Particularly, students were targeted and most were threatened with a penalty of $750 per song.[19] Although the lawsuits were mainly in the U.S., other countries also began to follow suit.[20] Beginning in 2008, however, RIAA announced an end to individual lawsuits.[21]