Mothers Taking the Fight to the RIAA

An anonymous reader writes "p2pnet is reporting that two more single mothers are refusing to be victimized by the RIAA. Patricia Santagelo was one of the first to stand up and fight the lawsuits, which some say resemble protection racket schemes. Now Dawnell Leadbetter of Seattle and Tanya Andersen of Oregon have decided to follow suit and stand up against the recording industry behemoth. From the article: 'Don't let your fear of these massive companies allow you to deny your belief in your own innocence. Paying these settlements is an admission of guilt. If you're not guilty of violating the law, don't pay.'"

Comments

Victims? Not really

[Henry V .009]

"Andersen states categorically that neither she nor anyone in her household has ever downloaded 'illegal' digital files."

And yet...

When I first got my computer set up almost three years ago, I had a friend set it up for me since I did not know how to do it. She had put Kaaza Lite on there and told me what it was...

I find that the most likely explanation is that pirated music was shared from this woman's computer. The RIAA is perfectly justified in going after her for it.

You can safely ignore this article

[Ogemaniac]

Any article that starts out by whining about someone's physical handicaps, when they clearly have nothing to do with the matter at hand is a priori full of "#$". How on earth are physical health problems related to one's guilt or innocence with respect to copyright law? The answer? Not at all. Hence, the author starts his argument with a laughably idiotic argument, and that sets the tone for the rest of the article.

In any case, finding a half-dozen sap stories of possible mistaken identity out of 14,000 is not surprising at all. Even in these cases, many of them just look like the parents were not paying due diligence to the children's habits.