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The RIAA labels should be required to pay the owner of the site for any lost advertising revenue, lawyer fees for the defendant, and any other costs associated with this case that wasn't paid for by the RIAA labels (the fed seizure, the prosecutor, etc... was paid for by tax payers). They wasted everyones time and money.

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Agreed. We have a great exemplar of a private interest abusing their connection with the government to damage someone else. And I don't care if its the RIAA randomly taking down web sites, or Zero Halliburton manipulating where the Army goes to protect Oil Well infrastructure that activity should open up the manipulator to large civil penalties.

I think I'll include that in my discussions with Congressional candidates this election season.

they should be hit with punitive damages as well

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