Tenenbaum fined $675,000 for pirating 30 songs

[Kenny]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/o-tenenbaum-riaa-wins-675000-or-22500-per-song.ars

Basically, it looks like this:

Steal two CDs from a store = Petty theft, pay a fine in the hundreds of dollars

Pirate two CDs' worth of songs = Copyright infringement, pay a fine almost twice the value of an average house in Toronto

Discuss.