Record industry gets egg on it’s face
Finally someone has gone to court rather than allowing themselves to be bullied by the RIAA (the body respresenting the recording industry in the USA). The RIAA likes to scare people into settling out of court by threatening to sue those they think have uploaded music into the internet for mega-massive sums of money per track – an out of court settlement is then offered for a comparably small sum of several thousand dollars. Which is a fine way to treat your customers. Most people on the receiving end of such RIAA strong-arm tactics prefer to not to take the risk of being bankrupted and settle out of court, whether they are guilty or not.
And what happened this time? The RIAA threatened someone who didn’t have a computer, didn’t know how to operate a computer, and didn’t have any money. The RIAA-victim refused to back down and settle out of court. The RIAA tried belatedly to drop the case and had to pay the defendant’s legal costs.