"We appreciate that Mr. Tenenbaum finally acknowledged that artists and music companies deserve to be paid for their work"
Yes RIAA, the artists do deserve to be paid!
How much of this $675K will actually end up in the artists pockets??? history tells us not a cent!

The industry as we know it is dead, its time to embrace change and work with it instead of paddling against the current and ultimately drowning.
Associations like the RIAA's only purpose is to enforce ridiculous fines (675K for 30 songs????$30 seems more like it) and act as the greedy middleman leaching of the hard work of the creator.
Times are changing, people are once again learning the benefits of sharing in this tough economic climate and more and more people are less willing to part with their hard earned for some of the rubbish that is going around the music scene.

File sharing is a hydra, the only way to beat it is to join it.
Anything else is fallacy.