The RIAA paid Holmes Roberts & Owen $9,364,901 in 2008, Jenner & Block more than $7,000,000, and Cravath Swain & Moore $1.25 million, to pursue its "copyright infringement" claims, in order to recover a mere $391,000.

I'd like to join Ray Beckerman in a giant, hearty belly laugh over this failing strategy.

I also hope the mouth-breathers behind the manipulatively named US Copyright Group manage the same abysmal return on investment.

Unfortunately USCG is bottom-feeding for contingency-only, so their cost-to-recoup figures would (at least on paper) appear much stronger. When you're investing nothing but postage, your own time and toner it's far easier to reach break-even.