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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. Abolish copyright, and this won't happen. by Thinkit3 · · Score: 0, Troll

    If the RIAA had no grounds for suing anyone, then there would be no mix ups.

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  2. Oh please... by why-is-it · · Score: 0, Troll

    when they discovered she thought 'Kazaa' was a magician playing at local kids' birthday parties. The story is as reported in the Boston Globe."

    I can see that /. has lived up to the highest standards of journalistic integrity...

    Note, the magician crack is a joke ;)

    Not a particularly funny, or appropriate joke.

    Surely the story can stood on it's own merits without the need for hyperbole. I thought it was the bad guys who had to resort to shouting that the sky was falling...

    I wonder if the editor actually RTFA before adding the clarifying remark...

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  3. Re:wow ... by Frag-A-Muffin · · Score: 1, Troll

    I would be surprised if there were any common law country where the identify of users of an IP address were NOT subject to subpoena in a civil suit. Why should it be? There's no presumption of confidentiality.

    a) The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act

    b) Bell, probably the biggest ISP in cananda (also the biggest provider of phonelines!!!) has this document about private customer information.

    Ummm yeah .. In most countries (I'd bet), even the police would have to get a warrant of some sort, before they can just get this information from a company. Why on God's green earth does an association of stupid record labels, have the power to bypass all these laws?!?!?

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  4. Re:But theyre still gonna keep an eye on her. by michrech · · Score: 0, Troll

    You've never been to backslashdot.org? Man.. It's EXACTLY like slashdot.org, except there are no dups, no MS adverts, no snide/sarcastic/completely stupid comments added to the articles by the editors!

    Oh, and it's FREE! Yes... I thought every slashdot'er knew about it!

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  5. Re:neophyte = Apple User? by flappinbooger · · Score: 0, Troll

    I know of (at least) one G4 Imac user who has a lot of trouble with his OSX whenever it hiccupps. He seems to have more problems with it, and he calls me with "My mac is broken again, help!"
    Just because my wife has a G3 Imac with OS 8.6, he thinks we can help him.
    I'm like - "Well, if you had an old mac or a winXP machine, maybe we could help. Here's what we would do if it was on OUR Imac..."

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