It has been a long time since I have posted to this thread. There have been a couple reasons. One is that other sites have done a better job of keeping up with the legal events and the other is that I began to believe that the RIAA could not be stopped.

There is finally reason for hope. Two file sharing cases have been under-reported. Both were big defeats for the RIAA. They are Atlantic V Anderson and Columbia vs Foster. In both cases the music industry lost and admitted they were at fault. In both cases legal fees were awarded.

More detail is available here.