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Subject: RIAA keeps the lawyers well fed

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Betty

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Date Posted: 12:34:01 08/15/04 Sun
In reply to: Betty 's message, "RIAA & goofy laws." on 17:09:22 02/01/04 Sun

RIAA keeps the lawyers well fed
4 August 2004 18:19 by Ketola

The Recording Industry Association of America keeps demonstrating its fine ethics by suing more P2P pirates who destroy the entire music industry and cause malnutrition to artists. It seems that someone has told the recording industry that "there's no such thing as bad publicity." Sadly that's not the case.

Last month RIAA sued 90 named and 500 unnamed "John Doe" defendants. One of the named defendants is a couple from Iowa, who had no clue that their children, teenagers of 18 and 15, were downloading music off the Internet. Sandy and Richard Nauman are both completely computer illiterate -- according to Sandy Nauman neither of them could retrieve a song from the Internet to save their lives,

A lawyer has adviced the Naumans to settle with RIAA out of court. The settlements have been around $3,000.

"To me, it's very ridiculous," Sandy Nauman said. "To be honest with you, I was more worried about other things they're getting off the Internet other than songs."

Amen to that.

So far RIAA has sued more than 3,500 individuals. Luckily they still have millions of users more left to target.

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Subject	Author	Date
The RIAA needs to get a life	Betty	12:49:45 08/15/04 Sun