Court is Wrong to Award RIAA $22.5K From File Trader
Jon Newton writes on MP3newswire.net:
A federal US appeals court has upheld a $22,500 judgment against Cecilia Gonzalez, a 29-year-old Chicago mother and a victim in one of the first Big Four p2p file sharing cases.
The mother of five children, in September, 2003, she was among the first 261 people to be named at the beginning of by the Big Four Organized Music cartel's twisted sue 'em all marketing campaign.
Sony BMG (Japan, Germany) Vivendi Universal (France), EMI (Britain) and Warner Music (US) are using their misnamed Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to try to gain control of the as yet unestablished online music business.
They're attempting to achieve this by creating an aura of palpable legal terror they hope will compel the average person to turn to sites they supply and support, such as iTunes, RealNetworks and Napster, rather than the independent competition which is, to their distress, appearing online.
posted by Fergie @ 12/12/2005 11:01:00 AM
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