Cory DoctorowThe labels sued him for millions and millions (the statutory damages for digital copyright infringement runs to $150,000 *per file*) and, when he begged for a settlement, said that they would accept his life's savings, but only if he *changed majors* and stopped studying Computer Science.
No, really.
What's more, *none* of the money the labels extracted from teenagers, grandparents (and the dead) went to artists.
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