Newsgroup: it.comp.macintosh
Titolo: Fwd: Way to go RIAA!!! [shaming a 12 year old girl]


Newsgroups:  rec.music.beatles
Date:        9 Sep 2003 19:22:04 -0700
Yay!!! The RIAA has succeeded in shaming a 12 year old girl and extracting two
grand from a fmaily that lives in a government housing project.  Ahhhhh, they
must be beaming with pride!
******
Girl, 12, Settles Piracy Suit for $2,000 
WASHINGTON - A 12-year-old girl in New York who was among the first to be sued
by the record industry for sharing music over the Internet is off the hook
after
her mother agreed Tuesday to pay $2,000 to settle the lawsuit, apologizing and
admitting that her daughter's actions violated U.S. copyright laws.
The hurried settlement involving Brianna LaHara, an honors student, was the
first announced one day after the Recording Industry Association of America
filed 261 such lawsuits across the country. Lawyers for the RIAA said Brianna's
mother, Sylvia Torres, contacted them early Tuesday to negotiate.
"We understand now that file-sharing the music was illegal," Torres said in a
statement distributed by the recording industry. "You can be sure Brianna won't
be doing it anymore."
Brianna added: "I am sorry for what I have done. I love music and don't want to
hurt the artists I love."
The case against Brianna was a potential minefield for the music industry from
a
public relations standpoint. The family lives in a city housing project on New
York's Upper West Side, and they said they mistakenly believed they were
entitled to download music over the Internet because they had paid $29.99 for
software that gives them access to online file-sharing services.
Even in the hours before the settlement was announced, Brianna was emerging as
an example of what critics said was overzealous enforcement by the powerful
music industry.
The top lawyer for Verizon Communications Inc. charged earlier Tuesday during a
Senate hearing that music lawyers had resorted to a "campaign against
12-year-old girls" rather than trying to help consumers turn to legal sources
for songs online. Verizon's Internet subsidiary is engaged in a protracted
legal
fight against the RIAA over copyright subpoenas sent Verizon customers.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., also alluded to Brianna's case. 
"Are you headed to junior high schools to round up the usual suspects?" Durbin
asked RIAA President Cary Sherman during a Senate Judiciary hearing.
Durbin said he appreciated the piracy threat to the recording industry, but
added, "I think you have a tough public relations campaign to go after the
offenders without appearing heavy-handed in the process."
Sherman responded that most people don't shoplift because they fear they'll be
arrested.
"We're trying to let people know they may get caught, therefore they should not
engage in this behavior," Sherman said. "Yes, there are going to be some kids
caught in this, but you'd be surprised at how many adults are engaged in this
activity."
interstate5
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Gli americani sono completamente scemi. Quella madre li batte tutti
pero', soprattutto perche' sono riusciti a pagare 30 dollari per un
programma per scaricare canzoni

 
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