"At $1 per track it seems that 25,000 copies is not all that many"
Assuming the information I found with a quick search is still correct and with a $1 track price:
Apple gets 35 cents
The record label gets 55 cents
and the artist get around 10 cents (if they are lucky and don't have producers and recording costs to pay)
I assume that your support is mainly with the artist rather than the record label so it would require a full 225,000 uploads to deprive the artist of $22,500. With a 4MB song file this would equate to a wholly unrealistic 879GB of uploaded data (per track).
Even if you just consider a full $1 loss per upload, it would still require 88GB of transfer to upload it 22,500 times. Simple common sense dictates that there is almost no chance this occurred and so the fine is grossly disproportionate to even cover the theoretical loss of 1 upload = 1 lost sale.
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25000 uploads?
"At $1 per track it seems that 25,000 copies is not all that many"
Assuming the information I found with a quick search is still correct and with a $1 track price:
Apple gets 35 cents
The record label gets 55 cents
and the artist get around 10 cents (if they are lucky and don't have producers and recording costs to pay)
I assume that your support is mainly with the artist rather than the record label so it would require a full 225,000 uploads to deprive the artist of $22,500. With a 4MB song file this would equate to a wholly unrealistic 879GB of uploaded data (per track).
Even if you just consider a full $1 loss per upload, it would still require 88GB of transfer to upload it 22,500 times. Simple common sense dictates that there is almost no chance this occurred and so the fine is grossly disproportionate to even cover the theoretical loss of 1 upload = 1 lost sale.