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RIAA Member Settles Suit After Defendant Proves She Did Even Not Own a Computer

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infmom
06/26/09

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Be very, very glad the public library was invented before the RIAA.
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OMG! Ponies!
06/26/09

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I think that Roy's attorneys should seriously think about Rule 11 sanctions for frivolous litigation. While I'm not sure about the federal definition, New York's definition is "lacking any reasonable basis in law or fact".

Additionally, Roy should consider an action against the RIAA and its attorneys individually (the firms and the individual attorneys) for malicious prosecution.

I wouldn't sue the trackers; leave impleading them to the RIAA attorneys. You split the defense as RIAA points at the trackers and the named attorneys and the trackers point back at RIAA. A good litigator turns the defendants against themselves.
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Geisrud
06/26/09

@OMG! Ponies!: I was hoping you would chime in on this....
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grok666
06/26/09

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It's hard to believe that so many Giz readers paid so little attention that they failed to understand the failure of the RIAA's tracking software to accurately track the IP address/lease of the IP address...

Be that as it may, at a bare minimum, she should have sued and would have (obviously) been awarded all court costs and attorney fees involved, and for any lost wages spent with attorney meetings and attending court to fight a false claim by the plaintiff... And as another poster mentioned (and the story pointed out), a counter-suit for punitive damages for false accusations and defamation of character held in front of a jury tired of hearing RIAA horror stories would have resulted in an award that would continue haunting them for all remaining cases that were pending. (And in spite of settling out of court, I have never understood why a good lawyer couldn't bring up facts introduced in another court, even if the case never completed with a court decision? After all, facts are facts, even if a defendant or plaintiff chose not to complete the process.)
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itchytooth
06/26/09

@grok666: But she didn't even have a computer! And your long list of words clearly proves that you are an RIAA Goon too! I can't wait 'till she sues you for anti-defecation.
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deanbmmv
06/26/09

@itchytooth: What? you read the "long list of words"? @grok666: was saying that she should of sued em to smithereens.
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itchytooth
06/26/09

@deanbmmv: My position has the qualities of iron. It is iron-y.
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