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| Justice can sometimes be poetic: the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which has sued 14,800 people for using peer-to-peer networks, is itself being sued. An Oregon woman is using anti-gangster RICO laws to countersue the organisation which spends its time suing individual file sharers. She denies ever having downloaded or distributed music and accuses the organisation of trespass - by secretly snooping into her computer. According to documents filed with the Oregon court Tanya Andersen, a 42-year old single mother, was accused of downloading gangster rap at 4.24am using the user name gotenkito. The document notes: "Ms Andersen does not like 'gangster rap' music, does not recognise the name 'gotenkito', is not awake at 4.24am and has never downloaded music." Ms Andersen was told she could settle with the RIAA or face expensive legal action. Count 8 of the document accuses the RIAA of breach of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisation (RICO) laws. The document says: "The record companies directed its agents to unlawfully break into private computers and engage in extreme acts of unlawful coercion, extortion, fraud, and other criminal conduct. The record companies and their agents stood to financially benefit from these deceptive and unlawful acts." |
| QUOTE (Fez @ Oct 5 2005, 01:45 PM) |
| No shes a single mom who really cant afford to be sued, so she is counter suing. But yes if this gets enough media attention you know some people are going to get behind it, its about fucking time someone stood up to the RIAA I find it Ironic that I would rather donate money to this cause then use it to purchase music |
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| THE RECORDING Industry Association of America (RIAA) has lost a key case where it attempted to sue a mother over her 13-year old child's file sharing abilities. According to CD Freaks, the case was overturned in a federal court in Michigan with prejudice. That means the RIAA case is lost. The RIAA was forced to withdraw its case because it held the mother couldn't be held to be liable for letting her daughter share music online. The case was brought by Priority Records on behalf of Elektra Motowwn Records, Warner Bros, Sony Music, UMG Recordings and Arista. However, the judge, Lawrence P. Zatkoff, said in his decision that he dismissed the plaintiff's case without prejudice as to any other person other than Candy Chan. |