The RIAA settled with the girl's family by taking $2,000 from them. Note that she is from a poor family living in a housing project, and didn't know she was doing anything wrong; her mom paid a monthly service fee for KaZaA, and she thought this entitled them to download whatever they found thereon.
Personally, I find this the private-sector version of the "Bring 'em on" utterance: the action which switches my stance towards some powerful domestic entity from guarded negativity to disgusted loathing, and a deep desire to make them go away.
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grr.
I am going to make an effort to stick to non-RIAA member record lables from now on. Really.