09/25/2007
Victorious RIAA defendant gets attorneys' fees, turns to class-action plans
In some wonderful news, a federal magistrate judge late last week awarded former RIAA defendant Tanya Andersen attorneys' fees for her nearly two-and-a-half-year fight against a copyright infringement lawsuit.
Andersen, a disabled single mother, is now turning her attention to countersuing the RIAA in a class action. The RIAA, among other enlightened tactics, ambushed Andersen's 8-year-old daughter at school, where an RIAA goon, lying his way into the school as "a relative," attempted to interrogate the kid about her mom.
The link above has many connections to other stories about the RIAA's efforts to screw their customers; many of the stories indicate a growing trend among federal judges (the sane ones) to disallow the RIAA's Gestapo tactics in extorting "settlements" or simply abandoning cases that seem to be going against them - thereby ruining the defendants by sticking them with thousands of dollars in legal fees before the cases get to trial.
Thanks to Joe for flagging this one.