Under copyright law, the group can be awarded damages of $750 to $150,000 for each copyrighted song that was distributed without authorization.
Going into the trial, MP3.com faced damages of up to $167.5 million as a result of Judge Rakoff's earlier order that it pay Universal $25,000 for each copyrighted CD included in its database.
In the past 4 months the RIAA has engaged in more than 1,600 lawsuits against individual students demanding $3,000 from each for copyright infringement.
The lawsuit seeks $150,000 in damages for each act of copyright infringement that it says Bertelsmann contributed to, and sought to benefit from financially.
Universal, with artists like U2, Mary J. Blige and Mariah Carey, said it was seeking damages of as much as $150,000 for each incident of copyright infringement, plus costs.
The lawsuit takes aim at the websites' ability for users to swap pirated versions of its' musicians videos and seeks as much as $150,000 for each incident of copyright infringement.
Some, such as Google Video, diligently screened each video for copyright infringement.
For example, both companies are spending more money on TV ads than big consumer brands like Toyota or Sony, trying to attract programmers with unusual incentives, and even don't refrain from suing each other for copyright infringement (a relatively rare incident in Japan).
The makers of golf clubs, of course, are always suing each other for various copyright infringements.
And "a Pentagon employee screens each [upload] for taste, copyright violations and national security issues".
