ZDNet.com gives a scathing review of the RIAA settlement with the Santangelo family.

After four years of battling Patti Santangelo and her children over alleged P2P downloading, the RIAA has settled with the family for a paltry $7,000 – to be made in payments, AP reports.

They also give a curse assessment of the RIAA enforcement business, written by the outspoken Paul Sanders

Under normal rules, managing your resources irresponsibly and doing things that are not worth the time money and effort, let alone the loss of goodwill and the distraction from normal business, are surely grounds for instant dismissal. I certainly couldn’t run my businesses if I took a similar approach to my major cost centres.