You've probably heard about the RIAA and its wonderful "let's make examples of our customer base by suing them into oblivion" campaign against alleged file sharers. Most people settle by agreeing to pay the many thousand dollars, unable to amass a legal campaign against the music industry's legal brawn. Until now. Patricia Santangelo has taken a chance and decided to fight and has refused to settle. Lucky for us, we can follow along with the proceedings. The legal team that is representing her is blogging the event, even going so far as to show the filed documents. Elsewhere, someone captured the transcript of Patricia's (seemingly) first visit to court (before she had found a lawyer). It's sad to see the RIAA lawyer try to finagle the defendant out of her rights right in front of the judge. Luckily, the judge was not buying it. An enlightening read.
Update: The lawyer defending Patricia says he believes their firm could defend lots of RIAA defendants, because they'll recoup the legal costs when they win.
3 comments:
Oh man, I'm so gonna watch this carefully.
That transcript is great - really sounds like the lawyer for RIAA didn't want to proceed and kept pushing her to pay the $$$ (or consummate with the settlement center). Glad to see the judge put that weasle in his place.
Go Girl Go, hope she win, our turn is coming with that new law that the liberal want to bring in, what a mess.
maxflex
I always thought the business model of suing the people you want to be your customers was an excellent and very profitable way to run a corporation.
Dumb asses.
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