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Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
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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The RIAA can kiss my $%##!!!!! Downloading songs are not stealing money from the artist........ITS YOU AND YOUR GREEDY BOOTLEG CONTRACTS THAT STEAL MONEY FROM ARTIST!!!! Then, to top it off, you want to sue the very people who stopped spending their money on your jank CDs in order for you to keep 90% of your artist profits!
What the fudge eva!
I swear as consumers we shouldn't buy one more CDs from ANY member of the RIAA until they get together!
At least Universal is lowering the price of their CDs, in hopes to bring folks back to buying them. Folks don't think spending $18.99 and up is worth the price of one or two songs. But they may spend 8.99 to 12.99.