RIAA Suit Rejected With Prejudice

yfarren writes "According to cdfreaks.com the RIAA has lost the case against the mother of a 13 year old girl accused of file-sharing violations." From the article: "The case was dismissed with prejudice, which prevents the case from being advanced against the defendant. Finally, the RIAA tried asking the Judge to amend the judgment in order to allow them to sue the child through a Guardian Ad Litem. However the court denied [the] RIAA's request."

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More appropriate title

[dtfinch]

RIAA beaten by 13 year old girl.

Re:More appropriate title

[Laz7]

host that video file on the P2P networks and see what happens to you ! *smile*

Re:More appropriate title

[MoreNoiseThanSignal]

i think an even more appropriate little would be "LOL PWND".
but maybe that's just me.

Re:More appropriate title

[vsprintf]

host that video file on the P2P networks and see what happens to you ! *smile*

The MPAA would poison the torrent with old interviews of Jack Valenti.

Re:More appropriate title

[poopdeville]

OMG i wish I had teh mod points. You'd get a +1 Inciteful. :-)

Re:More appropriate title

[/ASCII]

I am not a linguist, but I think he may have meant 'loser'.

Re:More appropriate title

[rooster9]

thanks for pointing that out moran.

Re:More appropriate title

[citog]

How do you know his surname is Moran?

Re:More appropriate title

[YetAnotherLogin]

Well, aren't you a cunning linguist

Let me be the first to say...

[conJunk]

...I for one welcome our new bullshit-lawsuit-quashing overlords.

Easy Targets

[fragmentate]

Going after 13 year olds... it's like some sort of electronic pedophilia.

Extreme Prejudice

[Suzumushi]

Now if only we can get the judges to terminate with extreme prejudice these RIAA bullies...

Maybe there should be a new Pepsi/iTunes ad...

[RetrogradeMotion]

... with a rendition of "I fought the RIAA and the law won."

Child abuse sucks

[node357]

The RIAA should be slammed for emotional abuse.

Wow!

[Anonymous Coward]

That might have been the worst analogy ever constructed by a human being.

And then...

[anandamide]

...they tried asking the Judge to amend the judgment in order to allow them to roll over the child's cute,fuzzy puppy with a hella gnarly steamroller, which the judge granted.

Re:fun with popups

[jcr]

Never, ever, ever link to a site with that level of popups.

The site has popups?

Why aren't you using a better browser?

-jcr

Re:precedent?

[tktk]

if i get an extortion letter form the RIAA for $36,000 because i downloaded Kelly Clarkson, can i play stupid in court and win?

Downloading Kelly Clarkson is the surest sign of stupidity.

Re:In defense of the RIAA

[Incadenza]

Besides, if you're looking for anti-intellectual property types, look in the BSD camp.

Well, it took me some time to understand that sentence. At first I thought these BSD guys/girls were anti-intellectual, and had a lot of property. How odd.

Re:Huge mistakes

[Gewis]

It was a lawsuit. Of course it was going to go to court.

That's where lawsuits go.

Re:Open memo to the RIAA:

[Thuktun]

The RIAA is shooting itself in the foot.

Is this really something that should be discouraged?

Re:fun with popups

[Anonymous Coward]

Like duh, why were you so STUPID as to have Flash installed in the first place?

Re:Open memo to the RIAA:

[MassacrE]

I just think they should aim higher

Re:Open memo to the RIAA:

[Alsee]

I could possibly see something like 'Buy 2 songs from this EP and get the 3rd for $.50' -- which would be a win-win for consumers and the labels

Yeah right, like there's any EP with a third song that would be worth fifty cents.

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Re:Open memo to the RIAA:

[mc_barron]

The RIAA is shooting itself in the foot.
Is this really something that should be discouraged?

It is when they're the ones standing on our backs.