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12-Year-Old Sued For Music Downloading
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Tue Sep 9, 2003 @ 2:07pm |
 Coolness: 686280 | 12-Year-Old Sued for Music Downloading
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. "I thought it was OK to download music because my mom paid a service fee for it. Out of all people, why did they pick me?" The Recording Industry Association of America — a music-industry lobbying group behind the lawsuits — couldn't answer that question. "We are taking each individual on a case-by-case basis," said RIAA spokeswoman Amy Weiss. Asked if the association knew Brianna was 12 when it decided to sue her, Weiss answered, "We don't have any personal information on any of the individuals." Brianna's mom, Sylvia Torres, said the lawsuit was "a total shock." "My daughter was on the verge of tears when she found out about this," Torres said. The family signed up for the Kazaa music-swapping service three months ago, and paid a $29.99 service charge. Usually, they listen to songs without recording them. "There's a lot of music there, but we just listen to it and let it go," Torres said. When reporters visited the apartment last night, Brianna — who her mom says is an honors student — was helping her brother with his homework. Brianna was among 261 people sued for copying thousands of songs via popular Internet file-sharing software — and thousands more suits could be on the way. "Nobody likes playing the heavy and having to resort to litigation," said Cary Sherman, the RIAA's president. "But when your product is being regularly stolen, there comes a time when you have to take appropriate action." At the same time, the RIAA offered amnesty to file-swappers who come forward and agree to stop illegally downloading music over the Internet. People who already have been sued are not eligible for amnesty. Brianna and the others sued yesterday under federal copyright law could face penalties of up to $150,000 per song, but the RIAA has already settled some cases for as little as $3,000. "It's not like we were doing anything illegal," said Torres. "This is a 12-year-old girl, for crying out loud." ********** Anyone else think these clowns have finally gone too far and are going to get a MAJOR public backlash? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mali replied on Tue Sep 9, 2003 @ 6:12pm |
 Coolness: 202805 | fuckin americans, my God |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Tue Sep 9, 2003 @ 9:30pm |
 Coolness: 201915 | wait wait wait...
THEY PAID FOR KAZAA ? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Tue Sep 9, 2003 @ 9:37pm |
| Coolness: 686280 | irony is great, isn't it? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Wed Sep 10, 2003 @ 12:26am |
 Coolness: 340355 | hahaha this story is so gonna make the general public think negatively of the RIAA. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Wed Sep 10, 2003 @ 12:43am |
| Coolness: 686280 | General public isn't gonna hear about it. Rather than fighting it, the dumbass mother gave in and settled. Fuckin' bitch could have been a hero if she fought and went public and could have brought the RIAA to it's knees, but noooooo.
One Sued File-Sharer Settles With RIAA ... 260 To Go Less than 24 hours after the RIAA announced that 261 people would be slapped with lawsuits for illegally downloading music, one of them has settled. Manhattan resident Sylvia Torres, who was sued for copyright infringement by the Recording Industry Association of America, settled with the organization for $2,000, according to an RIAA spokesperson. Only Sylvia Torres said she wasn't the one who put more than 1,000 copyrighted songs, unlawfully obtained through Kazaa, up for grabs from the family computer's hard drive — it was her 12-year-old daughter. "We understand now that file-sharing the music was illegal," Torres said in a statement issued by the RIAA. "You can be sure [my daughter] Brianna won't be doing it anymore." In the press conference held Monday (September 8) to announce that the lawsuits had been filed, RIAA President Cary Sherman forecasted situations in which the recipient of the lawsuit may not necessarily be the one committing the crime. He said that the message that file-sharing was illegal and punishable would nonetheless be heard (see "RIAA Files First Round Of Lawsuits Against Subpoena Targets"). "I am sorry for what I have done," the seventh grader said in the statement. "I love music and don't want to hurt the artists I love." The RIAA obtained Torres' name and address by issuing a subpoena to her Internet service provider, which could only surrender information on the subscriber. Often the subscriber may not be the offender, especially in the case of minors. Torres' settlement comes in direct opposition to statements she made to New York's Daily News Monday. She told the paper she thought the lawsuit was "ridiculous" and vowed to get a lawyer to fight it. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Wed Sep 10, 2003 @ 12:47am |
| Coolness: 340355 | thats where you're wrong, i've read this story from about 7 different sites, cnn had it, even fox news had it. the hicks have heard it now! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Wed Sep 10, 2003 @ 12:50am |
| Coolness: 686280 | Yeah, but she settled, so now that she isn't putting up a fight, everyone except the fanatical "I hate all authority" people will forget about it because some famous person is gonna molest some 3 year old tommorow and it'll be all over the news and the masses, what with their attention span of a gnat on speed, will remember nothing. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Wed Sep 10, 2003 @ 12:53am |
| Coolness: 340355 | true. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PoiSoNeD_CaNdY replied on Wed Sep 10, 2003 @ 12:56am |
 Coolness: 92380 | i really hope it backfires on them
FUCK THE RIAA!! stupid. fucking. americans. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Wed Sep 10, 2003 @ 12:58am |
| Coolness: 340355 | you wanna fuck the RIAA? download more music, pay for less of it. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Wed Sep 10, 2003 @ 1:01am |
| Coolness: 201915 | The riaa exists only because artists let it exist... if enough people band together and create some really well organized independent labels, instead of selling out to the big ones to make a quick buck (or more likely get screwed out of a lot of money), the riaa would have much less power. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Wed Sep 10, 2003 @ 1:02am |
| Coolness: 686280 | Actually, since sunday I've downloaded just over 3 gigs worth of MP3s.
I now have ALL of the albums released by Psychopathic, and a bunch of Front 242 and Frontline Assembly albums.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Wed Sep 10, 2003 @ 1:19am |
| Coolness: 340355 | Frontline Assembly's cool. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Wed Sep 10, 2003 @ 1:27am |
| Coolness: 201915 | wait wait, did you just say you listened to GOOD music ? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Wed Sep 10, 2003 @ 1:29am |
| Coolness: 340355 | .....
uhh.. last i heard you said my mixes were good. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Wed Sep 10, 2003 @ 1:34am |
| Coolness: 201915 | yeah
but I didn't think you could pull away from the trance lifestyle |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Wed Sep 10, 2003 @ 1:11pm |
| Coolness: 340355 | uhh.
well, just cause i listen to one genre doesn't mean i can't listen to anything else.. ? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» mdc replied on Thu Sep 11, 2003 @ 12:46am |
 Coolness: 149505 | yes it does ian... shut up |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» OMGSTFUDIEPLZKTX replied on Thu Sep 11, 2003 @ 12:55am |
| Coolness: 67205 | The RIAA aren't going after the real problem.
Kazaa and Morpheus and such nonsense doesn't really make it easy to download complete high quality album rips. The RIAA doesn't seem to care about IRC and FTPs. And lets see them tackle bittorrent. |
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