RIAA wins first lawsuit, defendant to pay $9250 per song

I had a bit of fun in another thread about this on a different forum. I'll quote the pot before, and then mine:

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Only 24 were mentioned in the trial she appears to have uploaded over 1000 to share

Oh noes! A full thousand! I'm sorry, but even a thousand is nothing. Let's say you get an average of 15 tracks on a CD, and a CD, when new, costs about £10. If one person downloaded all of the 1000 tracks, then the music industry would be around £670 out of pocket. For the industry to be £108,000 out of pocket, it needs 162 people, give or take, to download each of the 1000 songs - in other words, 162,000 songs need to be downloaded (which, out of plain interest would be the equivalent of about £749,250,000 in fines, if we take the figure that the defendant was fined). Obviously there's going to be an error in my calculations (if anything, they might be a few million out... but when we're talking such big money, does the odd million even matter?). Just another interesting fact to chew on - the global market for the music industry is estimated at between $30-$40 billion! Sorry if I'm ranting a bit.

Apparently the RIAA mentioned 1,702 songs uploaded, but chose to focus on just 24.

Double pounds to get dollars.