going after more (Score 1)

If the damages are awarded to cover not only the illegal downloading of the songs but also the "collateral" damage caused by other people downloading the songs from the defendant, then once those damages are awarded, should that not bar the RIAA from seeking further damages from other individuals who have downloaded copies? If the RIAA were to sue every individual who has a pirated copy of each of there songs, as they seem intent on doing, their so-called "damages" would be many thousands of times more than they could have made by selling legitimate copies of the tunes. That strikes me as being very unreasonable.