No I don’t know the exact figure... you think that makes my story less credible? You think my friend told me: "Hey did you hear James got busted for downloading off limewire! yeah he had to settle with the RIAA for like three thousand two hundred and seventy five dollars!" of course not, you just say he settled for like 3,000, which is what my friend told me, so chill.

Also, what’s with the added emphasis on the "you" in: "YOU don’t know?". Why would I be more likely to know the exact number as a friend of someone who knew the person who got caught? Wouldn’t that make me even less likely to know due to the fact that im getting it as second hand information to start with? What’s your deal?

To everyone else, thanks for the responses so far, I didn’t know they traced mostly through uploads. However I'm still interested to see if anyone knows anything in relation what my friend heard about the RIAA putting up fake files on limewire or tagging certain files so that once you download them or a given number of them they can trace you. Anyone know about this? Thanks!