RIAA Going After a 10-Year-Old Girl

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The latest target of the RIAA's ire is a 10-year-old girl in Oregon, who was 7 when the alleged infringement occurred, and whose disabled mother lives on Social Security. In Atlantic v. Andersen, an Oregon case that was widely reported in 2005 when the defendant counterclaimed against the RIAA under Oregon's RICO statute and other laws, the defendant's mother sought to limit the RIAA's deposition of the child to telephone or video-conference. The RIAA has refused, insisting on being able to grill the little girl in person. Here are court documents (PDF)."

Comments

Re:taking it out on the children

[nurb432]

No, there is not a comparison.

When you shoplift, you take an actual tangable object. The store is deprived of the ablity to sell that object to a customer and there is a true monetary loss.

When you copy some abstract bits of data, you have not deprived anyone of anything. And, if you couldn't afford the bits in the first place, then even the vague concept of 'a potential sale lost' is nullified.

Try again. But think it thru before you waste my time again.