RIAA Sues the Wrong Person

Cildar writes "In the 'oops' category, the RIAA was forced to withdraw its suit against a 66 year old computer neophyte (read Apple User for god's sake) when they discovered she thought 'Kazaa' was a magician playing at local kids' birthday parties. The story is as reported in the Boston Globe." Update: 09/24 15:19 GMT by T : Note, the magician crack is a joke ;)

Comments

BWAHAHAHAH!

[SoTuA]

Serves them right, those RIAA bastards. They weren't counting on our secret weapon - the clueless user!

Re:BWAHAHAHAH!

[Lawbeefaroni]

"Please note, however, that we will continue our review of the issues you raised and we reserve the right to refile the complaint against Mrs. Ward if and when circumstances warrant," Colin J. Zick, the Foley Hoag lawyer, wrote to Beeler.

Don't underestimate their secret weapon, complete ignorance and total fucking arrogance. And of course their not-so-secret weapon, fat wads of cash.

Re:BWAHAHAHAH!

[Petronius]

Always picking on the Mac users...

Magician

[Robmonster]

Anyone know how much this magician charges for childrens parties...?

And does anyone know where I can download David Blaine, the popular P2P filesharing program?

Re:Magician

[Anonymous Coward]

Over here in London, we've got a box of David Blaine in the public domain.

Re:Where?

[beady]

obviously Kazaa waved his(?) wand and disapeared...

A strategy by the ISPs?

[spineboy]

Could they intentionally be making "mistakes" and give out the wrong information to the RIAA thus embarrassing them.

"Oops sorry, the DHCP must have reassigned that address,we THOUGHT it was the one you wanted...Sorry."

This would let their customers still enjoy what they initially signed up for (filesharing, you've seen the adds, etc.)

Strike 2

[Safrax]

First the 12 year old and now this. I wonder what the third strike will be? Perhaps someone inside the RIAA? That'll be a PR disater.

Re:whee, here we go again.

[loginx]

In 3 years, Microsoft's business model will switch exclusively to the SCO business model.
Since they won't be able to sell their product because it takes them too long to develop them and the quality is barely acceptable in most cases, they'll just start sueing any company that did any work based on MS technologies (Novell/Ximian), any company that cloned the looks of windows (Lindows/Lycoris/Xandros), but also any user who ever used any pirated copy of any MS software (about 80% of the planet).

As you can see, we shouldn't be too worried about the future of Microsoft as a business entity.

Re:The U.S. Constitution

[tsg]

That's when my good pals Hancock, Franklin, Washington, and Jefferson, along with a few other buds, got together and came up with this whole fair trial system.

ObSpicoli: "So, what this Jefferson dude was saying was, we left this England place because it was bogus, but if we don't get some cool rules, pronto, we'll just be bogus too. Yea?"

What?

[mschoolbus]

magician crack?

Where do I get that? Never heard of it... =P

Obviously network pros are working on this.

[widderslainte]

... the recording industry requested information about the wrong IP address, which is usually more than nine digits.

Re:But theyre still gonna keep an eye on her.

[kamukwam]

backslashdot.org seems to have a search engine powered by verisign... weird...

Re:Legal fees?

[Anne_Nonymous]

Plus she probably got so upset by the lawsuit that she spilled hot coffee on her lap...

Hmmmm...I do sense a litigation opportunity after all.