From Slashdot: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/30/2053230

"Not content with current statutory damages, the RIAA is pushing for
higher damages for infringement(1), damages that would total $1.5
million for copying a CD with ten songs. It's all part of debate over
the proposed PRO-IP Act. William Patry, a lawyer who wrote the seminal
seven-volume reference on US copyright law(2), called it the most
'outrageously gluttonous IP bill ever introduced in the US.'"


(1)
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080129-statutory-damages-not-high-enough.html
(2) http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2007/04/article_0009.html