The RIAA must pay P2P defendant Debbie Foster $68,685.23 for accusing her of sharing copyrighted music over a P2P network.  Judge Lee R. West had ordered the RIAA to pay these fees back in April, but didn't specify a total, which he revealed in an Order (PDF) issued yesterday.

Foster had originally sought fees totaling $114,363.18 but the RIAA objected, claiming that the number of billable hours and the hourly rate were too high, that the case was too simple to cost over a hundred grand to defend, that some of the work was duplicative, and that Foster was "not entitled to fees that could have been avoided had she assisted the plaintiffs or acceded to settlement," among other things.