RIAA Caught in Tough Legal Situation

JeffreysTube writes "The RIAA's legal fight against a divorced mother has run into trouble, with the judge now telling the RIAA that its only two options are to proceed with a jury trial against Patty Santangelo or dismiss the case with prejudice. If the latter happens, Santangelo officially "wins" and could collect attorneys' fees. The judge is less than pleased with the RIAA, which is now trying to drop the case without giving Santangelo a chance to be declared guilty. 'This case is two years old,' wrote Judge McMahon. 'There has been extensive fact discovery. After taking this discovery, either plaintiffs want to make their case that Mrs. Santangelo is guilty of contributory copyright infringement or they do not.'"

Comments

Re:I know you hate the RIAA

[Anonymous Coward]

Personally I could care less if you got pirates black listed but don't expect your sales to start jumping through the roof. Most people I know buy far fewer CDs then they did before because most of them buy online and many of us are sick to death of hearing the mainstream stuff via radio saturation. I know of some who have admitted to owning several pirate CDs but like me they only got a copy to see if they liked it. Like me they try to purchase the music if they can but often we can't, why? Because the stuff we are downloading isn't mainstream and sold in the CD shops plus when it might be 11:30pm when I am browsing, why wait until tomorrow if I can buy right now online and have it ready to go on my MP3 player for the trip into work? That and there are artificial restrictions on many online stores preventing us from buying music, especially foreign music.

My daughter downloaded some Ethiopian and Russian music and loved it, can we buy it? Not legally. I personally do not buy CDs at all anymore, I buy MP3s from indie bands, preferably directly because I want my money to go to the artist, not some middleman.

Steven.

Re:I know you hate the RIAA

[Epeeist]

> My store specialised in family music - stuff that the whole family could listen to. I don't sell sick stuff like Marilyn Manson or cop-killer rap, and I'm proud to have one of the most extensive Christian rock sections that I know of. ...

> When they came to the counter to make their purchase, I grabbed the little shit by his shirt. "So...you're going to copy this to your friends over The Internet, punk?" I asked him in my best Clint Eastwood/Dirty Harry voice.

How very christian of you.

Re:Is that your final comment?

[Fordiman]

You forgot itsnotatrap and notfud