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RIAA Sues Computerless Family
Also fails in attempt to sue 13 year old girl
by Matt Sunday 23-Apr-2006 tags: Fileswapping
According to the Rockmart Journal (via digg), the RIAA is suing a Georgia family for copyright infringement, despite the fact they don't own a computer. P2PNet meanwhile points out that a court has rejected an RIAA attempt to sue a thirteen year old girl; their attempts to sue parents as proxy for a child's activity have likewise been difficult.

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ggoose_69

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great

Nice work, keep up that great work you are doing.

aight

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Re: great

I fully expect the RIAA to sue a dead person relatively soon.

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Re: great

said by aight:

I fully expect the RIAA to sue a dead person relatively soon.
Didn't they already do this?
PDXPLT

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Re: great

[I fully expect the RIAA to sue a dead person relatively soon.
Na, what'll happen, since they found they can't sue those under 18, is the following:

-- packaging on CD's will become like software, with lengthy copyright license terms on the outside detailing what you can, and cannot, do with the copyrighted material contained on the CD therein;

-- opening of the package will constitute acceptance of the terms of the license;

-- since this acceptance is only enforcable on adults, stores will be prohibited from selling CD's to anyone under 18;

-- Oops! Someone in the music companies realizes that almost all of their existing sales are to people under 18; "what will we do now"?

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Re: great

said by PDXPLT:

[I fully expect the RIAA to sue a dead person relatively soon.
Na, what'll happen, since they found they can't sue those under 18, is the following:

-- packaging on CD's will become like software, with lengthy copyright license terms on the outside detailing what you can, and cannot, do with the copyrighted material contained on the CD therein;

-- opening of the package will constitute acceptance of the terms of the license;

-- since this acceptance is only enforcable on adults, stores will be prohibited from selling CD's to anyone under 18;

-- Oops! Someone in the music companies realizes that almost all of their existing sales are to people under 18; "what will we do now"?
Very simple. Pay more dollars to congress and have the laws changed that anyone regardless of age can be sued. No more protection for pre-18 year olds!
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Re: great

said by n2jtx:

said by PDXPLT:

[I fully expect the RIAA to sue a dead person relatively soon.
Na, what'll happen, since they found they can't sue those under 18, is the following:

-- packaging on CD's will become like software, with lengthy copyright license terms on the outside detailing what you can, and cannot, do with the copyrighted material contained on the CD therein;

-- opening of the package will constitute acceptance of the terms of the license;

-- since this acceptance is only enforcable on adults, stores will be prohibited from selling CD's to anyone under 18;

-- Oops! Someone in the music companies realizes that almost all of their existing sales are to people under 18; "what will we do now"?
Very simple. Pay more dollars to congress and have the laws changed that anyone regardless of age can be sued. No more protection for pre-18 year olds!
Na, rumour has it they are going to stop production of CD's and start selling Vinyl Records again

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Re: great

said by ifarrell:

Na, rumour has it they are going to stop production of CD's and start selling Vinyl Records again
Hell i miss the warmer sound of vinal my self. There are some highly specialized sound cards out there that add this warmness. Theres a paticular mother board that uses a cathode tube to add a warmness to the sound. Ive heard one in use and it is quite nice make most high end sound cards sound like total crap in comparison.

Personaly im suprised the record execs havent started creating vinal records to make some cash. There are still a large number of the 30+ crowd my self included who would buy records. Its funny but you can buy serious stereo equipment equiped with things like turntables and even 8 track tape decks (corse they also have cd player tape deck and cd burner and are many 1000s of dolors and are mostly aimed at people looking to make masters or remasterign of new albums.)
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Re: great

said by novaflare:

said by ifarrell:

Na, rumour has it they are going to stop production of CD's and start selling Vinyl Records again
Hell i miss the warmer sound of vinal my self. There are some highly specialized sound cards out there that add this warmness. Theres a paticular mother board that uses a cathode tube to add a warmness to the sound. Ive heard one in use and it is quite nice make most high end sound cards sound like total crap in comparison.

Personaly im suprised the record execs havent started creating vinal records to make some cash. There are still a large number of the 30+ crowd my self included who would buy records. Its funny but you can buy serious stereo equipment equiped with things like turntables and even 8 track tape decks (corse they also have cd player tape deck and cd burner and are many 1000s of dolors and are mostly aimed at people looking to make masters or remasterign of new albums.)
Here's the link to it:

»www.digit-life.com/articles2/aopentube/

A-Open makes it. Also have posted a pic:

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Re: great

NO $%@&#$ WAY! That has to be a joke?
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Re: great

said by fireflier:

NO $%@&#$ WAY! That has to be a joke?
That board? No, it's not a joke.

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Re: great

Does it come with a spare? Do you have to wait for it to warm up prior to use? Man, if those caps blow...

Yeow!

Cool though. My brother rebuilt a Mcintosh tube amp and the thing would crank and blow any speakers we had. Three HUGE transformers...I painted skulls on them for him. Too bad he sold it as now they make speakers thak can handle them.

Tubes. Geeks rule!

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Re: great

said by cableties:

Does it come with a spare? Do you have to wait for it to warm up prior to use? Man, if those caps blow...

Yeow!

Cool though. My brother rebuilt a Mcintosh tube amp and the thing would crank and blow any speakers we had. Three HUGE transformers...I painted skulls on them for him. Too bad he sold it as now they make speakers thak can handle them.

Tubes. Geeks rule!
I don't think it comes with a spare, but the print says they make tubes that will replace this one if/when it fails.

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said by Cheese:

said by fireflier:

NO $%@&#$ WAY! That has to be a joke?
That board? No, it's not a joke.
I would love to try that board.I see not mention of power supply recommended,it also looks like it could be a heat throwing monster.
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I would have sworn this was all an April Fool's day hoax, if I hadn't gone to the AOpen site:

»usa.aopen.com/Products/mb/ax4b-533tube.htm

As an old tube-tech from radio years ago, I don't see how this triode amp, even if its taking the output off the Cathode, isn't emitting so much RFI inside that computer case it doesn't induce voltages EVERYWHERE on every buss and on every signal cable. Tubes are RFI demons!

John

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Re: great

said by Anodyzed :

I would have sworn this was all an April Fool's day hoax, if I hadn't gone to the AOpen site:

»usa.aopen.com/Products/mb/ax4b-533tube.htm

As an old tube-tech from radio years ago, I don't see how this triode amp, even if its taking the output off the Cathode, isn't emitting so much RFI inside that computer case it doesn't induce voltages EVERYWHERE on every buss and on every signal cable. Tubes are RFI demons!

John
That board is a few years old.

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Do they make a sound card that uses a vacuum tube?

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said by ifarrell:

Na, rumour has it they are going to stop production of CD's and start selling Vinyl Records again
They do still sell vinyl records. I have some new ones in my stash. And many of my Vinyl Records I listen to in mp3 format on my computer. There is no way to stop the digitization of sound. Physically impossible, short of physically removing the recording device from everybody.
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Re: great

said by Maxo:

said by ifarrell:

Na, rumour has it they are going to stop production of CD's and start selling Vinyl Records again
They do still sell vinyl records. I have some new ones in my stash. And many of my Vinyl Records I listen to in mp3 format on my computer. There is no way to stop the digitization of sound. Physically impossible, short of physically removing the recording device from everybody.
I wouldn't put it past them.
If the &^AA had their way, they would ban all recording devices.
They've been fighting it since the Dark Ages.
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But how does any of that stop a 13 year old from downloading and sharing music?

No one has to buy anything for that to occur.

King P
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Yes they did

»forums.ind-music.com/viewtopic.php?t=24

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2 edits
oops, well the link was live at one time...

Jason Levine
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Re: Yes they did

Here's another link:

»boston.com/news/odd/articles/200···d_woman/

(Though there's something ironic about the link being dead too. )

P2PPirate2

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It happens already, RIAA sue a deceased Grandmother last Febuary. you can read it with the link below

»www.betanews.com/article/RIAA_Su···07532260

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I think its a matter of days until they sue themselves for copyright violation (I mean, who else is left?)

rachelsfx

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Sounds like an ISP screw-up

Or, how do we know the family isn't lying?

The article provides NO proof they don't own a computer. Did the "reporter" actually see no computer?

It could be a previous tenant, but sounds more like the ISP gave the wrong info. However, if the ISP did, they did DURING the time the family lived there based upon the IP address (if some little ISP, Duh!). Either the ISP gave the wrong address or the little 13 year old is playing the dumb act or the parents destroyed evidence (the computer).

hnsez

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I suggest you put your money where your mouth is.

Since they started suing people I have bought ZERO music CD's from the RIAA.

I stopped downloading MP3's also.

RIAA would have noticed if enough of us had done the same.

If everyone who wastes their time RIAA hating on the Intarwebs would have done the same I bet they would have gotten the message and stopped sueing people.

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How'd they get her info?

If they are suing her and she doesn't own a computer, how did they get her information?
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Re: How'd they get her info?

said by Rob:

If they are suing her and she doesn't own a computer, how did they get her information?
google
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Re: How'd they get her info?

said by BIGMIKE:

said by Rob:

If they are suing her and she doesn't own a computer, how did they get her information?
google
That doesn't make any sense at all.
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Re: How'd they get her info?

They most likely went to google and entered random phone numbers until they got a hit, at times it seems like that's what the RIAA does.
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ok? The RIAA resorted to just drawing names out of a hat.
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said by Rob:

said by BIGMIKE:

said by Rob:

If they are suing her and she doesn't own a computer, how did they get her information?
google
That doesn't make any sense at all.
I think it was meant as a joke.

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Taking countless people to court for swapping music doesn't make sense either.

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OR freedom of information Act

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Re: How'd they get her info?

FOIA doesn't apply, most likely the family has some sort of set top box for cable tv; each box is assigned an IP via DHCP. Chances are the box ntpd synchs to another time server than the cmts ntpd there by allowing a gap in the logs of little joey downloading, and these people plugging in the set top box, or rebooting it. Grabbing Little Joey's ip since his parents just took the cable modem out of his room for his dad to use to download the latest GGW Spring Break endeavor.
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said by Rob:

If they are suing her and she doesn't own a computer, how did they get her information?
Most likely, bad info from an ISP responsible for the offending IP address.

Possible scenario: Previous owner of house downloads or uploads music and has an account with ISP. New owner moves in and establishes a TV video account, but no internet access. ISP gets subpoena. Checks IP address and matches it with an account address from logs at time of offense. Address given to RIAA. Lawsuit undertaken. Sloppy work all around by ISP and RIAA lawyers.
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insomniac84

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They supposedly only lived at their current address for under a year. So odds are it was the people who lived their before that downloaded the music. Or in the end it could have just been a database error, or human error when looking up information.

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by using the latest in technology

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How'd they get her info? If they are suing her and she doesn't own a computer, how did they get her information?

another fine example of the literacy level of the general public...
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Re: How'd they get her info?

Uhh Are you even reading this thread?
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ok but does the RIAA have to sue in a local court or can they use a court in their own state. because if they say went to an LA county civil court that judge's ruling has no authority over someone in say Florida(unless hes a Federal judge)
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How can this keep happening??

Seriously, someone should sue these guys for un do pain and suffering, I mean imagine one day you walk to your mailbox and see a letter saying your being sued for thousands of dollars but yet you know your inicient (seeing as these people don't own a computer to start with)

Why doesn't these people sue the RIAA for Pain and suffering, getting their facts wrong and anything else people can think of heck get a paper cut opening the letter, sue them for injury if they would of just got the right people the paper cut would of never happened.

Gotta love the Amercian Justice system folks I hope that the inocent people who are inocent in cases such as this stand up for themselves.
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Name this song

I have this song in my head; all I remember is the lyrics "Can I get an !@ " Don't know the name of the song but I wish more people would sing it when dealing with the RIAA!

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inothernews

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riaa found dead on street in a drive-by. details at 11

Oil industry earning RECORD profits.
Apple Computer Inc: RECORD profits, erhmm I mean profits from the RIAA's records, er recordings.. hehehe.

I'm shocked they can't find someone reasonable, like an OIL COMPANY board of directors family, or a gas-station gouging owner's family. Sheesh, ya know, go where the money really is... you can't pick on the little people 25/8/369!!!
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Re: riaa found dead on street in a drive-by. details at 11

said by inothernews :

I'm shocked they can't find someone reasonable, like an OIL COMPANY board of directors family, or a gas-station gouging owner's family. Sheesh, ya know, go where the money really is... you can't pick on the little people 25/8/369!!!
They have better lawyers on retainer, not worth it to go after the rich folk...yet.
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Screw Em

THe RIAA is retarted

THey take the sped bus made just for them (the other speds are more smarter)

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Re: Screw Em

said by safdsdf :

THe RIAA is retarted

Not sure they were ever "tarted" in the first place...
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Crikey!

Did you see the songs he allegedly downloaded? I will personally kick my own ass if I ever got busted downloading Whitney Houston.

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Re: Crikey!

said by Pateo:

Did you see the songs he allegedly downloaded? I will personally kick my own ass if I ever got busted downloading Whitney Houston.
They claim "she" shared files.

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Re: Crikey!

That's no excuse
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That Pirate flag i think represents RIAA right?

They are more like pirates than music downloaders..

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Re: That Pirate flag i think represents RIAA right?

It isn't just the RIAA. Both the music and movie industries
routinely use someone else's IP for their own purposes and
get away with it. Both industries are about as venal and
corrupt as they come, and for them to keep shouting about
piracy and infringement, etc., is sheer hypocrisy.

One of the MPAA 6 is Disney, and they are some of the
worst offenders in this area.
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The RIAA can suck my balls....

I can tell their top graduate was probably from Chico state college if that. Their stupidity is beyond adjectives.

P2P ENCOURAGES SALES MOST OF THE TIME. Dumb-asses. If I try out a song at say 128Kbps bit rate and I feel the songs are good I would probably buy the higher quality version sooner or later. Also P2P spreads the artists popularity.

Secondly Microsoft Windows XP OS and others have been pirated since the day or before they even come out. However Microsoft hasn't sued many over this(maybe 5 people who really bootlegged it) and I have yet to see them go bankrupt. Oh wait you say they are the RICHEST company in the WORLD? Oh what a surprise. How do these RIAA idiots think Billy Gates even got into the computer business? BY GETTING HIS NAME OUT. P2P essentially does just that, it gets the artists name out to people that might have never heard of him before or thought of listening to that music.

Essentially the only thing the RIAA is doing is seeming like an evil corporation and shooting themselves in the foot. I wonder who manages the RIAA decisions because he is one big idiot on the way he handles matters.

My statement here was acknowledge by the richest man in the world who stated the same thing. I wonder who is right on making money. Billy Gates who acknowledges what I just said and makes BILLIONS or the RIAA who is seeming like a malicious dog hunting people.

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Re: The RIAA can suck my balls....

said by Obliteration:

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P2P ENCOURAGES SALES MOST OF THE TIME. Dumb-asses. If I try out a song at say 128Kbps bit rate and I feel the songs are good I would probably buy the higher quality version sooner or later. Also P2P spreads the artists popularity.

not relly if u get WMA
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Fear

It works. Just ask the college kids that took out loans to pay the RIAA.

By the way, Mike, it sounds like P2P downloading is your hobby.

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As far as your comments, people illegally download music to avoid paying for it. I doubt few download it for FREE so they can run to the records store to lay down $10-20 for the CD when they can just burn one for $.25.

riaa-hah

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computerless or not...

Lets assume the riaa did mess up the whole information process, and tried to sue a family with no computer. And lets say the same thing happends to family2, but they have a computer and honestly never did P2P before either, would anyone beleive them? I doubt it, and they would be sued for thousands based on information that HAS to be true, since they have a computer and the RIAA says so.

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Of course! It's a pre-emptive strike!

From the Rockmart article:

However, in a public statement defending the litigation, the RIAA says its efforts have been effective in dissuading illegal activity.

“The industry’s anti-piracy efforts have deterred a sizeable number of would-be illegal downloaders,” the RIAA statement reads. “Although a significant online problem undoubtedly persists, particularly with hard-core, frequent peer-to-peer users, absent action by the industry, the illegal down-loading world would be exponentially worse.”
Someone in the Walls family was thinking of getting a computer to pirate music! The RIAA has secretly implemented their own justice system, after watching The Minority Report. We're about a quarter of the way through their movie.

Either that, or the RIAA "alleges that Carma Walls, of 117 Morgan St., Rockmart, has infringed on copyrights for recorded music..." in a previous life. Get it? Carma? Sorry I couldn't resist!
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Re: Of course! It's a pre-emptive strike!

I'm sure that pulling random 16 year olds out of their bedrooms, hauling them to the center of town and beating the snot out of them because they might someday download a song would have a deterrent effect too. Nevermind that "guilty" prerequisite.

And the poster above is correct...you don't have to have an actual case to file a lawsuit. If the defendant just ignores the summons, a default judgment is entered and a whole new can of whoopass opens onto your life. That's the primary problem with the RIAA's tactics. They can screw with people--whether they have any hard evidence or not--without consequence in cases like this.
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But if they did own a computer..

The RIAA strongly believes everyone at some time or another has or will download their property. So this is really a preemptive strike for when this family finally purchases one. If they had owned a computer, the intent would have been there.

Ba$tard$. Someone needs to pull the RIAA up real short. Could they counter sue the RIAA under the RICO act?
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Re: But if they did own a computer..

said by pende_tim:

Could they counter sue the RIAA under the RICO act?
One of the victims of the RIAA's sue 'em all campaign
(perhaps more) has indeed countersued the RIAA under
the RICO act. What they're doing is little
more than legalized extortion.
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lol

really though, who the hell gives a DAMN if the info was wrong, and who came up with said bad info...with all the millions of dollars the RIAA throws up for laywers to attack 13 year olds AND dead people, you'd think these idiots would done some of their OWN homework before suing people without PC's...i say F the apologys and apologists, and chalk another one up for stupid bigbussiness practices...and the mexicans say you guys are all lazy! hah!

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Re: lol

said by FiL:

you'd think these idiots would done some of their OWN homework before suing people without PC's
You make the mistake of assuming that there is any quality control in the legal profession. If any other private business purposefully made these sorts of mistakes, they would be sued into oblivion!

Sorry for the half-pun.
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I just thought of something

what if they did this on purpose. The whole reason they do these lawsuits is to gain attention and threaten/scare people into paying them. Recently their lawsuits havne't been making news so they figgured they'd do something really drastic to get the media's attention. In the end it's just a "whoops, clerical error" and the case gets thrown out. So it costs them a few thousand but gets them more press, which is exactly what they want.

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Re: I just thought of something

If only I could get the RIAA after the mother in-law. Then they might have served a useful cause!
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Ottawa, ON

omfg

could we *please* send the next suicide bomber to the RIAA headquarters?

i'm certain no one here will miss them.
eric87m

join:2003-12-07
Princeton, NJ

what

They deserve to get sued for not owning a computer in today's world...

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TexasGuy
49 States And Texas
Premium
join:2002-12-02
Houston, TX

How could it be?

How can this family be computer-less? If RIAA goes by IP, then the ISP gave that address based on their customer records. If the family did subscribe for internet access, they should have a computer.

I doubt they had broadband only to run VOIP.
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frogli

join:2003-10-12
Yaphank, NY

Re: How could it be?

my mother and father do cause with vonage plus the bundle from charter it is cheaper then altel NO computer in the house.

Jameson
Premium
join:2004-05-28
Fallbrook, CA
kudos:1

Tax Money?

Man im so sick of the RIAA, i just cannot justify my tax money going to these idiots.
sunny8294
Shqipe

join:2001-03-15
Localhost ;)

Re: Tax Money?

Probably they mistyped the IP address somewhere? Silly but possible
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markopoleo

join:2003-04-02
Bonne Terre, MO

Re: Tax Money?

I don't pay taxes, but if i did they should have a list of places you want to send your money to imo.

viperpa33s
Why Me?
Premium
join:2002-12-20
Bradenton, FL

Defamation of character

This family can try to sue the RIAA for defamation of character but don't know how far it will get. If this family did not own a computer then the RIAA is falsely accusing them of breaking the law. On top of that, there names will be plastered all over the news.

In my opinion, I would not just take an apology from these bozos at the RIAA. Though it's a probability that the RIAA wouldn't apologize since apologizing would prove they are wrong and the RIAA is never wrong.
sd70mac666

join:2003-06-05
Saint Albans, VT

Re: Defamation of character

The RIAA has to be a huge joke right? if I ever got sued by then I'd use the RICO act for extortion. I hope they lose cause I think the courts are starting to catch on for frivilous lawsuits

shrtckt1
Fried Rice
Premium
join:2005-05-18
Athens, GA

Enough is Enough

I, for one am really growing very tired of reading & hearing about the RIAA's problems. They have received enough cheap advertisement. If the Courts would force them to show concrete evidence & the Media would just ignore them, they would loose all of the image that we have given them - even by acknowledging their existence.
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