The Recording Industry Ass. of America - defender of money grabbing luddite record labels and molester of talented artists* - has decided that allofmp3.com must pay for its terrible crime of abiding by Russian copyright law.

They're suing for every song downloaded from the Russian mp3 website by US citizens over a five month period this year. That's 11 million downloads. RIAA reckons that for every song downloaded - for roughly $1 - damages of $150 000 can be sought. That's $1.65 trillion in total, or to put it another way, roughly as much as the estimated GDP of Russia.