RIAA sueing 12 year old girl.

Null · 09-09-2003, 04:54 PM

heh.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,96797,00.html

yup. this makes the RIAA look much better.

altho i dont think anything will come of it, because she's underage and all. Possibly might sue the parrents instead.

which makes me wonder now. how the hell did they get her name? the ISP would be under her parents name anyway.

ah well.

Happydude · 09-09-2003, 05:32 PM

maybe she registered as a user under her name on kazaa or something.

anyway, the RIAA are stupid, instead of closing off kazaa and other file sharing programs and FTPs and a sh*t load more stuff...they aim for the individuals who are just using the programs and have no idea that it's even ilegal.

the RIAA will never win because one way or another music will always be stolen no matter what, it could even be someone buying a CD and burning it for 10 of his friends which burn it for 10 of their friends and so on. same with games, but most modern games have copy protection no the CD so it can't be burnt, although programs exist to crack the CDs. all i'm saying is that the RIAA doesn't see the big picture: it can not stop music from being copied/downloaded or anything else. you can even get music from your TV...just record a clip on DVD and your done...more ilegal music.

ohh well...i hardly download any music anymore anyways, i got all i need and dont have time to listen to even that. so i could care less.

Null · 09-09-2003, 05:48 PM

actually they cant shut down a lot of thoes programs. that is the reason why they are now going after individuals.

They already lost the battle over thoes programs. this is thier plan B

bobcat · 09-09-2003, 06:16 PM

Did anybody read this?

Quote:

"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?"

To me that doesn't sound like a 12 year old girl. It sounds like a grown man pretending to make the public believe it's a 12 year old girl.

Null · 09-09-2003, 06:23 PM

well it says the media showed up at thier house. so i would assume there is a little girl.

but it says they paid like $30 for thier kazaa. never seen that scam before. if its true they paid that. kinda sucks for them cuz they were tricked.

TheSlyMoogle · 09-09-2003, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Null

well it says the media showed up at thier house. so i would assume there is a little girl.

but it says they paid like $30 for thier kazaa. never seen that scam before. if its true they paid that. kinda sucks for them cuz they were tricked.

Yeah you can buy some kaaza program for 30. It's supposed to be really cool. I'm not really sure.

Jason1 · 09-09-2003, 07:49 PM

The RIAA needs to shove a stick up thier ass and go jump off a cliff.

Happydude · 09-09-2003, 09:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jason1

The RIAA needs to shove a stick up thier ass and go jump off a cliff.

thats nice!

Vampyr · 09-09-2003, 06:39 PM

Yeah, this is really stupid.

And I think a 12 year old girl would say something like that. My brother is 12, and he would say something like that, and hes not even smart.

I really dont think the RIAA should even be able to get peoples names from their ISP. Thats a little invading.

Classic Rocker · 09-09-2003, 06:56 PM

Screw the RIAA. I am boycotting purchasing CD's and other mediums supported by the company.

Ha..if the majority of P2P users boycott RIAA goods,,,then they will have a real reason to cry about there sales!

So boycott the RIAA

Jonbo298 · 09-09-2003, 07:28 PM

Yeah, I can't understand either how or why they paid $30 for it. Either they are trying to horribly lie their way out of the lawsuit or they got scammed.

But oh well, people need to figure out that KaZaa Lite is the one to use. At least it can block ip ranges of companies who search for share'rs and can keep your ip address from being shown.

Null · 09-10-2003, 10:24 AM

And now its settled.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,96890,00.html

$2000, $2 per song.

Which im not sure about, I think they shoulda talked to thier lawyer first, because im still not sure about this sueing a 12 year old thing and if they really coulda won it.

Happydude · 09-10-2003, 01:40 PM

....the vorizon president and the other guy are funny

ZebraRampage · 09-10-2003, 03:25 PM

When the girl downloaded the songs, did she even know that they were illegal?

Null · 09-10-2003, 04:11 PM

honestly a 12 year old girl isnt going to know the law that well. she might of known they were wrong. but then again she might of just thought it was the internet.

From the sounds of it, they got scammed into paying for the free file sharing program and thought since they paid it was a legal version. like some of the pay sites. (itunes for example)