LOL.
Intellectual property laws are especially designed to make lawyers and copyright holders richer and the rest of us poorer.
The individuals on the federal jury that awarded RIAA that enormous sum of money were obviously not fully informed of their own power as jurors.
Abuses such as this will continue until either a) the law is changed, or b) juries nullify the law.
Or maybe they thought that a woman who could buy songs for 99 cents, but instead stole them and put them on the web where thousands of other people could steal them, should have to pay a per-song fee for all the people who stole them instead of paying 99 cents.
If you stole 80,000 CDs from a store, and handed them out to 80,000 people on the street, that would be a crime comparable to what she did.