[gekko]

No, the college students won't be able to afford $150,000. Unfortunately, we'll be paying that money with our tax dollars while the kid servers some time in jail. Though most people wouldn't agree, by law college students are adults, and they have to take responsibility for their actions. If you break the law and get caught, you do the time. They know that, they don't care. I'll be happy if they get busted. There are students with tens of thousands of dollars of pirated software on their computer, something's not right about that. If you can't afford it, then you can't have it. For some reason today's kids feel they deserve to have whatever they want for free. I'll laugh when they end up in jail.

I don't think the RIAA is as worried about pissing anyone off as you think. The RIAA is already pissed off. You sue the major violaters for huge damages, shut them out of the picture. They should be able to work with the universities to stop file sharing from their users. The last thing they want to see is a big headline saying "U of xxx Supports Illegal File Sharing. Student are using the government-funded internet connection for illegal file transfers, and the school refuses to do anything about it."