
The RIAA may have largely abandoned its policy of suing individual file-sharers, but stats continue to emerge on the kinks in the process. Such as? Two recent convicted file-sharers – Jammie Thomas-Rasset and Joel Tenenbaum – were fined $80,000 and $22,500 per song shared respectively. Yet defendants who simply ignore the RIAA’s complaint and don’t turn up are being slapped with default judgements of… $750 per song.