In the days since RIAA announced plans to sue individual users of file-trading software, online file sharing has gone up 10% [TechNews]. According to the article, 53 million Americans use file-sharing software. I'm not sure how many lawsuits the RIAA is able to bring, but the odds of actually getting sued by them seem quite small. According to the National Safety Council, your odds of dying in a plane crash this year are about one in 381,566. The odds of dying in a car crash this year are one in 18,752 [NSC]. I don't quite have enough information to compute the odds of getting sued by RIAA if you're a file-swapper, but the accident numbers might help figure out how much to worry about it. [I lifted the news link from Synthetic Morpheme.]