News RIAA cocks up, sues 66 year old kindly granny

Oh I do like RIAA cock-up stories. Here's another from the Inquirer:

THE RIAA has egg on its face yet again after it decided to drop a lawsuit against a 66 year old grandmother who it accused of downloading 2000 songs.

Sarah Ward was one of the targets of a blizzard of legal actions against alleged file swappers. The RIAA thinks that a sum of $150,000 for a download of every song is the price such pirates should pay.

The RIAA decided to beat a hasty retreat on the case fearing that it would look like it was a really, really mean and vindictive organization, we suspect.

Full story here

 

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I think the RIAA are seeing that the scheme of suing everyone doesnt work.

Here is a story that happened to a friend of mine. He had just moved into a new house for uni, and left some boxes in the house then went out again for more. When he came back all the boxes nhad been stolen with all of his music cds. If he downloads the songs off kazaa etc he is now deemed a criminal as he has no proof of what cds he bought, its just not right.....