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RIAA wins $8,000 from very sick girl

by on29 December 2008

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She is a pirate and has to die


Sicko lawyers
working for the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) managed to get a judge to order a teen girl to pay the RIAA $8,000 because she was too sick to get to court to defend herself.

Ciara Sauro,  a 19-year-old girl from Pittsburgh, suffers from pancreatitis and severe depression, has mounting medical bills and her mum brings in just $8.25 an hour. Sauro needs to go to hospital regularly and could not show up in court after the RIAA claimed she shared 10 songs over the worldwide Web.  It says she deserved what she got.

She denies she shared anything and has fairly clear evidence that the Internet account used by the RIAA was opened by her father who had moved out of the house when he did it. A local lawyer has agreed to take on the case for free and will ask a judge to re-open the case.

The RIAA has decided to stop fighting cases like this, because it is getting too expensive.  However, the PR implications of dragging people into court who should not be there do not appear to be helping much. Instead, the new cunning plan is to sue ISPs and order them to cut off people it suspects are file sharers without the need of a messy court case.

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Last modified on 30 December 2008
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