The final paragraphs in this piece illustrate what a fiasco it has proved for RIAA to have filed these sorts of suits.<p>It is not filing any more of them. It has typically settled the ones it has filed for peanuts ($3,500 on average). And it is offering to settle this particular Minnesota case, in which it had gotten a $1.92M judgment (rejected by the judge as "monstrous and shocking"), in exchange for a $25K donation to charity by the defendant - with the defendant vowing to pursue the case through the appellate courts to challenge the very constitutionality of the stratospheric damages sought be RIAA in such actions.<p>All in all, a disastrous legal strategy for RIAA. At this point, the whole momentum has shifted and they can't wait to get out of it (their election to file a new trial appears to be nothing more than a desperate attempt to save face, if that is still possible). These are all indicators that this particular bully has been cut down to size, at least for the moment.