Posted August 19, 2010
"The ruling was handed down on August 10 the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California and targeted Alyson Reeves, who was operating under the business name of ScapeGaming. The huge dollar figure was calculated by combining the $3,052,339 the defendant received from users of her service via Paypal, statutory damages of $85,478,600 (calculated by multiplying ScapeGaming’s 427,393 users times the statutory minimum of $200 per “act of circumvention and/or performance of service”) and another $63,600 in attorney’s fees."
Even those attorney's fees were a fixed amount and not some arbitrary number the lawyers or the judge made up. They actually have a chart of what they are allowed to asses in fees in a case like this.