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RIAA Sues 12-Year Old Girl
tcp100 noted an article running at fox about
The RIAA suing a 12 Year Old girl: "'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."
Owwww !!! My foot !!! My foot !!! Owwww !!!
"It's so convenient to have a system where everyone is a criminal" - A. Hitler
Even funnier is the fact they paid $30 for KaZaA instead of just downloading it from somewhere.
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see, downloading files is just a gateway crime... by the time this girl is 17, she'll be knocking off liquor stores, and in her early 20's she'll be doing banks!
nip it in the bud!
Damn! and I'd nearly completed the whole Barney catalogue in mp3. Anyone got a copy of barney_and_the_squirrel.mp3?
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"When reporters visited teh apartment last night, Brianna..."
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Suing children!?!?! This one will really make everyone so much more likely to buy new CDs, won't it.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
She's stealing music. She deserves everyting she gets. She should be tried as an adult and the death penalty shuld not be ruled out.
If the piracy continues the recording industry may we wiped out, then would would all those poor executives do? The can't all join SCO.
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I am wondering why they are suing a kid living in city housing. It not like she has any money. Her parents might have some, but she doesn't.
Maybe the can take a cut of the income from her paper-route.
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These bloody little girls with their door-to-door cookie sales force, their road side lemonade counters. CORPORATE SELL OUTS! An underground copyright violation network is only the beginning; these mafiosos in the making will soon move to extortion and racketeering like the big boys (SCO).
Carpe Daemon
This would be laugh out loud hilarious if it weren't so horribly tragic...
And in further news, the RIAA and SCO have teamed up to kick a 6 year old's puppy. Film at 11!
The sizes may be different, but I think the mentalities of the RIAA and the 12 year old girl are probably pretty close
She's to young to be a pirate. Too female to be a cabin boy. What is the RIAA going to label her? a wench.
12 year old kid: Mommmmeeee come quick! There's a big bad slobbering RIAA-man under my bed! *sob*
Mommy: Don't worry sweetheart, we will make the big nasty RIAA-man go away. Take that *biff* *bash*. There you go honey, go to sleep now, he's dead.
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Super move RIAA: attack children. This will certainly endear you to the masses.
It's almost as though it was a setup. The only thing that was missing was the fact that she wasn't in a wheelchair.
CNN Pharse - Todays Date 2003 - New York - Parents of the 12 year old girl and childish RIAA henchmen have come to a settlement in the case of the 12 year old being sued for sharing MP3s using a paid version of a popular file sharing application. The settlement is reported to involve the girl giving up 3 barbie dolls, 2 pairs of shoes, and 4 pieces of bubble gum. In return, the RIAA will stop throwing mud and pulling her hair.
"The family signed up for theKazaa (search)music-swapping service three months ago, and paid a $29.99 service charge."
:/
Wow, all this time I've been paying $49.99 to use Kazaa!!
Bullshit, this is great. A pirate is a pirate. Ignorance is no excuse. At 12, she's certainly knows right from wrong.
If we let 12 year olds steal music, the terrorists will have won!
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not.
Daniel
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That's a pretty low thing to say about a 12 year old girl.
I doubt it. The article says the girl was an honors student, so that would put her at least one up on the RIAA and higher still than the Fox writer who misspelled the word "the" in the article.
It's all fun and games until someone loses the key to the handcuffs.
I bet he's Brianna's grandfather. She's the criminal mastermind behind it all. She probably tortures puppies and shorts SCO stock as well.
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copyright theft? they stole the copyright?
From the story:
"When reporters visited teh apartment last night, Brianna -- who her mom says is an honors student -- was helping her brother with his homework."
Who knew that Slashdot trolls were writing articles at FoxNews?
Quod scripsi, scripsi.
At least they paid for Kazaa.
That's good, isn't it?
I was writing a malloc routine, on the PC, and it was like bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep. And then, like half of my malloc was under the GPL. And I was like... huh? It devoured my malloc. It was a really good malloc. And then I had to write it again, and I had to do it in Greek letters, so it wasn't as good. It's kind of... a bummer.
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Sensationalistic reporting from Fox News? Never! That wouldn't be Fair and Balanced!
SCO have filed a lawsuit against the RIAA, claiming that the RIAA are infringing on SCO's copyrights over filing absurd lawsuits.
RIAA suas a 3 month old baby and his mother, who sang lullabies w/o paying the license
A RIAA representative said "SInce this kid is not going to forget this lullaby ever again, were thinking of lobotomizing it so we get back our intellectual property"
how long until
It makes me want to train a monkey to download songs all day. I want to see them sue my fucking pet hamster.
"Oh no Baxter! Looks like you're going to do some hard time unless you don't come up with $150 million dollars quick."
That's 1000 songs at $150,000 a pop. Makes the $20 you're paying for 10 or so songs seem cheap, now doesn't it?
Is downloading music illegal? Sure seems that way, Baxter. But is it fun? Oh yeah!
I don't think people here had that much sympathy for the young minor from Quebec? Her parents are responsible in this case, though I suppose it is still bad PR for the RIAA.
It is interesting to see Fox News coming to the rescue here. I thought it would be more like....
"Evil non-conservative parents in an inner city neighborhood encourage child to steal music..."
Is someone asleep at the wheel at FOX? Geeze they should hire me to prevent these liberal whiney stories from making it to the air! At the very least, put the right spin on it Fox!!
I'm gonna go out and get me a 12-year-old and have them do all my file sharing.
Tuus crepidae innexilis sunt.
This girl is a TERRORIST!! She is STEALING from musicians who will now DIE of poverty because of her, that makes her a MURDEROR!
Surely a minor can be taken to court for serious crimes? Like murder and terrorism?
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a 12 year old girl...
Time for EFF to do a "reverse-sting" - have 12-year old girls pose as 35 year-old male file-sharers with the goal of drawing more RIAA lawsuits.
(The reciprocal of how law-enforcement snags pedophiles in chat rooms - they have 35 year-old men posing as 12 year-old girls).
Our community is under attack by acronyms!!!! WTF??? When will it all end???
The funny things is that RIAA is trying to fsck this 12yo girl, while preaching that p2p is for child porn and is evil
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
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There are a huge number of yeast infections in this county. Probably because we're downriver from the bread factory.
Also, the BBC has a look at other 'victims' of the court cases
Let's see now - 261 people, assuming each shared 1000 songs (which I believe was the cap at which RIAA selected their litigants) - @$150000 a song - they expect $39,150,000,000($39 Billion smackeroos!!!). Assuming each case settles at $50000, the RIAA still stands to make $13,050,000 just from this 'spook & awe' campaign
Not bad for a 'sunset industry'
You do the crime, you do the time!
we probably couldn't even sing the national anthem without stuffing a dollar into the panties of some RIAA whore.
You shouldn't talk about whores like that. They provide a vital public service, as opposed to the RIAA.
*cough*
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
the RIAA sues a DOG, which was using the nick TopDog123 on the KAZZA file sharing program.
the Dog's owner, had this to say:
"Yeah, my dog likes listening to britney, so I tought her how to download her songs from Kazza"
since the Dog was the only user of the account in question, the RIAA decided to go ahead, and sued the dog for 12 million dollars.
Two weeks later, Britney published a new album titled "Songs for the dogs".
(yes, it's fictional, but it's fitting, isn't it?)
With women a distant last on that list...
They're far too difficult to configure...
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