RIAA suing a little 12 year old girl!!!

[GmanJoe]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32731.html

Fo shame! She\'s a bad baaaaad person and this makes RIAA look like a true knight in shining armor defending the rich!

my god, with the amount I download a day, I wouldn\'t be suprised if they declare world war 3 on me. :eek:

:rolleyes:
Good for RIAA.. Next target.... sending gangs to beat up the homeless ala clockwork orange.
:rolleyes:

RIAA the Nazi\'s of the Music Biz..

oh and RIAA want to sue me for that comment,my real name Eric Jacob aka Alter Beast from Canada.

Oh man I LOVE the way this story is getting picked up.  It really reveals the RIAA for the worthless GREED HEADS they are.  I can\'t wait to see this on the evening news tonight.  

"For crying out loud, she\'s just a child," the mother said. "This isn\'t like those people who say, \'My son is a good boy,\' and he\'s holding a bloody knife. All we did was use a service."

The mother said she signed up for KaZaA, paying a $29.95 fee. "If you\'re paying for it, you\'re not stealing it, so what is this all about?" she asked.

She said Brianna downloaded music by Christina Aguilera and Mariah Carey, along with the themes to television shows like "Family Matters" and "Full House" - and even the nursery song, "If You\'re Happy and You Know It."

"That\'s really threatening to the music industry," she scoffed.

"If this was something we were profiting from, that\'s one thing. But we were just listening and sometimes dancing to the music," said the mother.

I smell a countersuit for psychological damage inflicted on a minor.  

What kinda whack family dances to the theme of Full House?

This is a SHAMEFUL spectacle.

SHAMEFUL.

[Living-In-Clip]

So what? The parents are responsible for their kids actions and the parents apparently knew that their daughter was doing illegal activtives. Honestly, who lets their 12 year old on the computer, without watching them? And what example are they setting for their child, when they let it steal off the internet, but tell them they can\'t steal from a store It\'s a double standard.

I say, sue the parents . Maybe next time they will be more responsible for their daughter\'s actions. As it is though, they are goin\' to act innocent and hide behind the fact that she was just stealing "Full House" tunes and Brittany Spears..oh and she\'s 12...Whoopie.

Sue \'em.

How were the record labels damaged by this activity?  Would a 12 year old really have bought all those CDs if she weren\'t able to download a few songs?  

Also, the mother claims she paid $29.95 for Kazaa.  Not sure what that was for, but I\'m sure a stupid person could have thought it was legit.

[Living-In-Clip]

I don\'t care if the person paid for that and thought it was legit. That\'s Kazaa\'s problem, not the RIAA\'s.

And the fact isn\'t that she didn\'t have intent to distrubute the music, the fact is, she downloaded them in the first place and that is illegal.

While the parents may of thought this was a legit service - it obviously wasn\'t. Also, while you are all on the bandwagon about how this is wrong and they shouldn\'t be sued. You do realize that the RIAA is offering a amenisty \'program\' to those who admit to stealing the music. Which, allows them to get out of fines and what not. If I was the parents, I\'d simply do that.

I think RIAA should focus on the people who download CD\'s and sell them, same with movies and games....

I mean, if i get sued for downloading a few songs from a band i have bought 6 other CD\'s from, im gonna be very pissed.

[SirMystiq]

It\'s like they\'re trying to fix the outside of a car. With the car having a bad engine. Music sucks. Im not going to spend 15 dollars a cd for one song. It doesn\'t really matter though. I don\'t download that bullshit music anyways. Mariah, Christina, backstreet boys and whoever the hell is being "affected" by this can shove up all their left over cd\'s up their ass. Wanna sell? Make good music. Not more of the "im cool and if you do this youll be cool too" Bullshit.

Does anybody have a list of the artist that they are hunting for? Just in case

[videoholic]

Originally posted by SirMystiq
It\'s like they\'re trying to fix the outside of a car. With the car having a bad engine. Music sucks.  

Wow, what a powerful metaphor.


All I have to say is, "The bitch deserved it."

on another note, without kazaa, i\'d have purchased less CD\'s now.... it\'s a good way to check out a band you\'ve never heard before.

[SirMystiq]

Actually, it\'s not a metaphor. A metaphor is the comparison of two objects without using the words "like" or "as". I was not comparing the body of the car to the engine. They were both messed up so there is no comparison.

it was a simile comparing the car to the state of the music industry. :P