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RIAA Going After a 10-Year-Old Girl

Posted by kdawson on from the winning-friends dept.

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)."

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  1. Re:These stories... by ImTheDarkcyde · · Score: 0, Troll

    I can totally dig that, but I also think they do things like this to show that just because you're 10 doesn't mean you're above the law, just because your disabled you're not above the law, just because you're an elderly person you're not above the law, etc, etc. I can understand when they accidentally get the people who don't even own computers, but under no other cirumstance do I think a big deal should be made about the RIAA cases.

    In any case I'll probably get -1'd just for saying "don't do the crime if you can't do the time." Don't illegally download music without understanding the risks of doing something illegally.

  2. Re:Another backlash link... by cpt+kangarooski · · Score: 0, Troll

    "For the first time since Thomas Alva Eddison began selling wax cylinders, the music industry is having to deal with an informed customer (NOT consumer) base whose constituents can, and do, communicate with each other via blogs, emails, IM, chats, text messaging, and so on.

    I didn't know that they had weblogs back in Edison's time. I can't imagine that they did much, though. I mean, did Edison have to tell people, "Well, I invented this thing, and it's not good for a whole lot yet, but just you wait until the late 1990s, early 2000's. Then it'll be a firecracker!"

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    -- This and all my posts are in the public domain. I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
  3. Re:Prosecuting children by miskatonic+alumnus · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ahhh, back in the day, when I was knee-high to a grasshopper, pa used to cut the skin off my arse with an electric knife for the smallest infraction. They just don't discipline these kids nowadays.

  4. Re:Bush on the execution of the mentally retarded by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 1, Troll

    One of the inmates, Oliver D. Cruz, was described as mentally retarded, though that conclusion was challenged by prosecutors earlier this week.
    Well, since they are from Texas, the inmate would very much likely to seem to be not retarded at all if the prosecutors compared themselves to the inmate...
  5. Re:Disturbing anyone? by Starburnt · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well there used to be Jews in Germany. I wonder what happened to them.