Mommy - They're Suing Me!
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Sep 9, 2003 6:57 am US/Eastern
(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) A 12-year-old Manhattan girl is one of 261 people sued for copying music off the Internet via the Kazaa music swapping service.
The Recording Industry Association of America launched the next stage of its aggressive anti-piracy campaign Monday, filing 261 federal lawsuits across the country.
One of the named defendants in the case was Brianna LaHara, who goes to Saint Gregory the Great Catholic School on West 90th Street and lives with her mother Sylvia Torres.
Her mother says her daughter paid $29.99 for the downloading service three months ago. Torres says if you're paying for it, you're not stealing it.''
About 60 people in New York are said to have downloaded more than one thousand songs from the service. Each individual sued could be liable for fines of up to $150,000 for each stolen song.
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