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04-24-2005, 03:16 PM
p2pNet.net (http://p2pnet.net)
24 April 2005
Executives running the entertainment industry music cartel must be rubbing their hands in glee.
Sally and Jim Wilson, a mother and father involved in a class action suit against Sharman Networks' notorious Kazaa p2p application, may inadvertently be adding a powerful new weapon to the anti-p2p arsenals of the very organizations that are victimizing them.
In February, the Wilsons learned they were being sued by Big Music cartel’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), "because their two teenage daughters had downloaded 653 songs - and that they could be liable to pay $750 for each,� says the Cincinnati Enquirer.
They didn't have almost half-a-million-dollars, or even the, “$5,000 recording-industry lawyers said they wanted to settle the copyright-infringement lawsuit filed in Virginia,� says the story, going on:
“The Cold Spring couple has agreed to settle for $3,000. Next week, the Wilsons plan to sue an Australian-based company, Sharman Networks Ltd., whose popular peer-to-peer Kazaa software the girls used.�
Read More (http://p2pnet.net/story/4633)
24 April 2005
Executives running the entertainment industry music cartel must be rubbing their hands in glee.
Sally and Jim Wilson, a mother and father involved in a class action suit against Sharman Networks' notorious Kazaa p2p application, may inadvertently be adding a powerful new weapon to the anti-p2p arsenals of the very organizations that are victimizing them.
In February, the Wilsons learned they were being sued by Big Music cartel’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), "because their two teenage daughters had downloaded 653 songs - and that they could be liable to pay $750 for each,� says the Cincinnati Enquirer.
They didn't have almost half-a-million-dollars, or even the, “$5,000 recording-industry lawyers said they wanted to settle the copyright-infringement lawsuit filed in Virginia,� says the story, going on:
“The Cold Spring couple has agreed to settle for $3,000. Next week, the Wilsons plan to sue an Australian-based company, Sharman Networks Ltd., whose popular peer-to-peer Kazaa software the girls used.�
Read More (http://p2pnet.net/story/4633)