In < a1cbe11917847747521900e3ec7d7f79@mixmast
er.it>, nobody@mixmaster.it wrote:
>In article < 163943041b045e4343836846868057b4@mixmast
er.it>
>George Orwell <nobody@mixmaster.it> wrote: 
>
>No, he isn't. First of all, the hundreds of people who have been sued
>have been people *up*loading music, not downloading. That is why they
>were sued.

Wrong.  The hundreds, perhaps thousands by now, who have been sued are mostl
y people *DOWNLOADING* music.  What's bad, is that MOST of them probably hav
en't done anything wrong at all except get caught with a dynamic i.p. addres
s that somebody else used t
o download a music file or ten.

Case in point is the story of Patricia Santangelo, one of many innocent peop
le that the RIAA is trying to screw for something they didn't do.

Mom Fights Downloading Suit on Her Own
Dec 26, 3:26 AM (ET)
By JIM FITZGERALD

WHITE PLAINS, New York (AP) - It was Easter Sunday, and Patricia Santangelo 
was in church with her kids when she says the music recording industry peeke
d into her computer and decided to take her to court.

Santangelo says she has never downloaded a single song on her computer, but 
the industry didn't see it that way. The woman from Wappingers Falls, about 
80 miles north of New York City, is among the more than 16,000 people who ha
ve been sued for allegedly
pirating music through file-sharing computer networks.

"I assumed that when I explained to them who I was and that I wasn't a compu
ter downloader, it would just go away," she said in an interview. "I didn't 
really understand what it all meant. But they just kept insisting on a finan
cial settlement."

The industry is demanding thousands of dollars to settle the case, but Santa
ngelo, unlike the 3,700 defendants who have already settled, says she will s
tand on principle and fight the lawsuit.

"It's a moral issue," she said. "I can't sign something that says I agree to
 stop doing something I never did."

Recording Industry Association of America: http://www.riaa.com

Defense lawyers' blog on RIAA cases: http://www.recordingindustryvspeopl...pot
.com

Site focusing on peer-to-peer issues: http://p2pnet.net

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