RIAA Defendant Cross-Sues Kazaa And AOL

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In what appears to be a first, RIAA defendant Michelle Santangelo, the 20-year old daughter of Patti Santangelo, has made a motion for leave to serve a third party complaint against Kazaa and AOL, as well as against someone who installed Kazaa software, in Elektra v. Santangelo II. Her proposed third-party complaint (pdf) alleges that any injuries plaintiffs might have sustained were the result of the third party defendants' "negligence and breaches... in the defective design of Sharman Network's program, "Kazaa" which was a dangerous instrumentality in its each and every use as it existed in 2002-2004; the trespassing and reckless installation by Matthew Seckler [the person who allegedly installed the software without authorization] of such program; the failure to warn by AOL and Sharman; the failure to block the downloading of such files by AOL; the improper blocking of alleged (RIAA) warning messages by AOL and Sharman; and, the secretive file sharing system of and by Kazaa.""

Comments

Re:It wasn't me, it was the software

[Bombula]

The interwebs made me do it! They made me do it!

Re:WTF???

[jedidiah]

...nah. Just make people do their own tech support.

That way when the mother-in-law's machine implodes less than a week after we clean it up, then she is just stuck "off on the side of the road". The problem of "idiots on the freeways" self-corrects after awhile as all of the idiots end up crashing and taking themselves out of circulation.

All the people that bail out all of the idiots when they commence to shooting their own toes off help enable all of this crap.