Los Angeles - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has recently begun increasing its settlement amount offers to students who refuse to immediately settle and instead file motions or take the RIAA to court to challenge charges they illegally shared music online, Ars Technica reported.

If a student doesn't respond to an RIAA pre-litigation letter's settlement offer -- typically around $3,000 -- the settlement offer goes up to $4,000, should the RIAA have to go to court to identify the student from his or her IP address.

If the student decides to file motions to quash the subpoena or otherwise delay a trial, the settlement goes up to $7,000 or $8,000.

A legal consultant for the RIAA told Ars Technica over the last six months the record label trade group "has begun a concerted campaign to limit what it sees as frivolous litigation of this kind, as it says no defendant in the history of the RIAA enforcement campaign has successfully battled such a subpoena."

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