The RIAA is suing the website AllofMP3.com on behalf of EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music, and Warner Music in the amount of $150,000 for each of the 11 million songs that were downloaded from June to October of 2006. That comes to a lawsuit totaling $1.65 trillion!

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Read on to see our thoughts on this.

Matt: It is pretty obvious, isn’t it? No one has that much money. No company has that much money. No country has that much money. Well, they might have that much money, but then every person in the company/country would be either fired or become slaves.

Needlesstosay, I have to say that it is all quite laughable. But I do have one thing that made me nervous. I bought some music through AllofMP3.com and I’m worried that I could get in trouble. I doubt anything will happen, but who knows? Then again, if at least it isn’t you getting sued… right?

Chris:I just hope they use the money from the suit to pay down the National Debt. The fee seems outrageous, but if you think about it, it’s just 11 million counts of a reasonable fee, and the RIAA has as much of a case as they ever do. Part of me can’t help but think this is just the RIAA’s way of reminding us all that they’re still alive and kicking, though. The penalty is so high, it was bound to attract attention out here in the blogosphere, and then media outlets might care, and sooner than you’d think, the RIAA is trying to scare pirates again. Of course, that’s pure speculation.