RIAA sues 12 year old girl

[dwayne]

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NEW YORK — The music industry has turned its big legal guns on Internet music-swappers — including a 12-year-old New York City girl who thought downloading songs was fun.
Brianna LaHara said she was frightened to learn she was among the hundreds of people sued yesterday by giant music companies in federal courts around the country.
"I got really scared. My stomach is all turning," Brianna said last night at the city Housing Authority apartment where she lives with her mom and her 9-year-old brother.
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go gestapo go
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,96797,00.html




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[Shizuoka Dolphin]

Kids today, don't know right from wrong! Throw away the key, that's what I say.

 

[coach03]

And how much do they reckon they'll get in damages from a 12 year old?
About 10 bucks which will be her pocket money !? Muppets !

 

[Sam]

hahah they will charge per song i would have thought, but if she hasnt got the money, then they cant charge her anything can they? is there a lawyer on NSC?

 

[Seagull Stew]

I heard they were claiming about £100,000 per song.
Now I currently am sharing 1,437 tracks on soulseek.
That's a wopping fine of £143,700,000 if sued.

They might as well give me a spade and a few million bricks and tell me to single handedly rebuild the Twin Towers!

 

[Braders]

its her own fault - shes 12 and downloading nursery rhymes - its downloadable taking the mick !

 

[Stumpy Tim]

They might as well give me a spade and a few million bricks and tell me to single handedly rebuild the Twin Towers!

Quality

 

[tinx]

Only in america would they get away with that, although aren't her parents held responsible for her actions, so they'll be the ones getting sued.

When wll they wake up and realise that they will never stop this, there's far to many people doing it and many people who are far more clever than the ones trying to catch them.

 

[ripper]

The RIAA are acting like twats at the moment.Talk about alienating your customer base. People have been pirating stuff for years. They should get over it.

 

[Marc]

the RIAA listed Fat Wreck Chords (Independant Label: Punk) as a label that was against file swapping and it took FatWreck 9 months of phonecvalls & letters to get the RIAA to remove them from the list as they dont mind file sharing, RIAA are going to extremes with this new one though...useless bastards!

 

[Razi]

Her Mum settled for $2,000 with the RIAA in the eend.

 

[zefarelly]

shes quite old enough to know what shes doing, if shes been downloading 1000's of tracks and re distributing them then nail her . . .if shes just got boyzone albums then I'd suggest counselling and perhaps some 'shock' treatment . . . .a week with Darius should do it

 

[Exiled in Exeter]

Although most people seem to be aware that the RIAA are going to start prosecuting people, to me this action against the 12 year old seems very much a device to generate further publicity for what they are doing in order to discourage free downloads.

 

[DTES]

This may be bollocks, but I'm sure I remember talking about this before. Isn't a legal "get-out clause" in court that they haven't claimed from everyone? I don't think they can "take their pick" from the offenders, like if 5 people broke into your house, you couldn't just prosecute 3 of them, if you knew who all five were...

 

[El Presidente]

Shows how corrupt American politics is that Congress passed laws allowing such huge fines to be levied.


You would think they have better things to discuss but Bush is in the pockets of Big Business