P2Pnet.net reports that Tanya Andersen, a disabled mom of an 8 year old daughter, is going to sue the Recording Industry Association of American using the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act, which has been used to prosecute the Mafioso and related organizations, like US insurance companies, moving companies, etc.
Now, in what could be the beginning of the end for the Big Music cartel’s vicious sue ’em all marketing campaign, RIAA victim Tanya Andersen has just counter-sued the RIAA for Oregon RICO violations, fraud, invasion of privacy, abuse of process, electronic trespass, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, negligent misrepresentation, the tort of “outrage”, and deceptive business practices, says Recording Industry vs The People.
Is the RIAA suing the innocent? Well, yeah.
Radio industry news site FMQB.com reports that “legal experts are saying that many of the file sharing lawsuits filed by the RIAA are being waged against innocent victims.”
The RIAA has sued more than 14,000 people since beginning its litigation campaign in September 2003. So far, more than 3,300 parties have settled out of court … Ray Beckerman, a New York-based attorney with Beldock Levine & Hoffman, told Wired that he thinks thousands of people are being wrongly accused of copyright infringement. “My impression is that the majority of those sued are innocent,” he said. “Prior to retaining lawyers, when (defendants) talk to the settlement support center, they are threatened with criminal prosecution, ruin of their credit, publication of their names.”
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