RIAA Threatens 15-Year-Old

MunchMunch writes "It looks like the RIAA is still going after teenagers--this time, 15-year old Megan Dickinson was caught sharing 1,100 files. At the maximum statutory damages for copyright infringement, this makes Megan's liability at least $825,000, at most a mere $165,000,000. Naturally, the RIAA benevolently offered a $3,500 settlement to avoid these moderate, legally sanctioned damages. As we can hardly forget, the RIAA has already used this technique to settle with a 12 year old. Megan's unsurprising take: 'Yeah, it seems ridiculous.'"

Comments

Re:Assassination?

[Gojira Shipi-Taro]

Actually, people who push to far and are so sociopathic as to think that suing children is a good idea are what make people go nuts and go postal.

Injustice in abuse of the system, with no appreciable penalty to the offender is what makes people go "postal".

Yea, the kid needs to be punished. Threatening a $165 million lawsuit to get $3500 out of her is the act of a lowlife piece of shit.

I could see where say, this kids father say, might accidentally run over a family member or twelve of an RIAA officer. It wouldn't be right, but I could see it happening. Pushing people too far is just not good business.