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First RIAA Lawsuit to Head to Trial

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the take-a-number dept.

mamer-retrogamer writes "Out of 14,800 lawsuits the RIAA has filed in the past two years, none have gone to court - until now. Patricia Santangelo, a divorced mother of five living in Wappingers Falls, New York, found herself the target of an RIAA lawsuit and vows to contest it. Santangelo claims that she knows nothing about downloading music online and the likely culprit is not her but a friend's child who used her computer. The RIAA disagrees."

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  1. Re:The right side? Yeah.... by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't support the RIAA but they are following the letter of the law in their lawsuits. Courts encourage out of court settlements to save time. The RIAA are abusing this yes, but it's legal. Where as this woman's computer has commited a crime, no matter how small it is a crime.

    Now can we stop this "divorced mother with five kids" shit please? For all we know she's a slut who married some asshole and is leeching off the government hand outs so baddly she decided to spawn more brats to get more money. It's like going "think of the children!", the children might just be little bastards.

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