Has the RIAA smartened up?

olliez · Sep 25, 2003

Originally posted by Houstonrocketss

If it's man made it can be broken.

Nothing is unbreakable, if man built it then man can break it.

No offense to the ladies just a figure of speech
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LOL, RIAA... pea-sized brain.

I found this piece of news which made me chuckling:

CNN Report

BOSTON, Massachusetts(AP) -- The recording industry has withdrawn a lawsuit accusing a 66-year-old woman, who says she didn't even have file-sharing software, of illegally sharing hundreds of songs including rap.

The lawsuit against sculptor Sara Seabury Ward was among 261 lawsuits filed this month by the Recording Industry Association of America as part of a fight against Internet file-trading.

It accused her of illegally sharing more than 2,000 songs through the file-sharing service Kazaa, including rapper Trick Daddy's "I'm a Thug."

The industry threatened to hold her liable for up to $150,000 for each song.

But Ward's lawyer, Jeffrey Beeler wrote in a letter to industry representatives that Ward was a "computer neophyte" who never even installed file-sharing software on her computer, The Boston Globe reported Wednesday.

In fact, Ward uses a Macintosh computer at home, and Kazaa runs only on Windows-based computer programs, Beeler noted.

The case, filed in federal court in Boston, was dropped Friday.

However, RIAA lawyer Colin Zick added that "we will continue our review of the issues you raised and we reserve the right to refile the complaint against Mrs. Ward if and when circumstances warrant."

Neither Zick nor Ward immediately returned calls seeking comment Wednesday morning.
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Wakko67 · Sep 25, 2003

Personally I don't like to blindly go into buying a CD that I've heard one song from. I usually download about 3 or 4 songs from an artist to decide whether or not I'm going to buy it.

In some cases downloading helps the industry, though probably not in most cases.

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