Illegal is illegal; you are taking your chances.
Like speeding with the pack of cars; if you get singled out for a ticket it is pretty lame to say, “but everyone else was speeding too”.
She should have accepted the original deal and made a payment plan arrangement.
Plus, she had over 1,000 downloaded on her machine, they only prosecuted on a couple of dozen.
Help me out with the law... how did they know she had 1,000 downloaded? How did they know she didn't buy those songs legally and rip them into mp3s... or is that illegal too?