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RIAA Sues the Wrong Person

Posted by timothy on from the just-looking-for-clowns dept.

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 ;)

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  1. BWAHAHAHAH! by SoTuA · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    1. Re:BWAHAHAHAH! by Lawbeefaroni · · Score: 5, Funny

      "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.

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  2. Magician by Robmonster · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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    1. Re:Magician by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. Re:Where? by beady · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. Re:whee, here we go again. by loginx · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Obviously network pros are working on this. by widderslainte · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  6. Re:But theyre still gonna keep an eye on her. by kamukwam · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  7. Re:Legal fees? by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.