Now it's the students turn to sue.

[voltz]

http://www.boycott-riaa.com/article/10491

[Joust Williams]

If she won, though, she's going to make the rest lose. The RIAA doesn't have to settle. They could win every case.

I still haven't found a good defense given by these "Boycott RIAA" types. At least for the majority of them.

[voltz]

If she won, this would mean that RIAA can't just continue to send out lawsuits blindly without having to provide hard evidence and they sure don't have that right to go digging for it unless they use something that works under the patriot act in doing so.

Besides, if the judge finds that they are responsible for using their subpoenas in the use of extorting money via threats, they may be become open grounds for being investivated.

[Joust Williams]

Yes, but the money they make from getting a few large suits to go through will far exceed anything they're getting from this method.

[voltz]

There hasn't been any news over a case they won yet, so that still remains to be seen.

[Wildkat]

The same tactic was used be a few people sued by DirecTv for having purchased equpiment that "might" have been used to steal thier service..

It didn't work.

[gameoverDude]

RIAA vs. RICO. I love the sound of that.

When suing an individual for millions of dollars, how do they expect to see that amount? The average person won't have even $150K laying around or even make that amount in one year.

The heavy penalties of $150K per instance are actually intended against other corporations. If X Records notices another company putting out a song that is too close to being a clone of one of theirs, then they can go after the offender and probably get the amount.

If multi-millions are what the RIAA would like to sue file sharers for, we should be able to take murderers to court for hundreds of millions in wrongful death suits. Illegal sharing of copyrighted files should be like a low-grade traffic ticket offense- these file sharers are a lot less dangerous than someone who drives 90 in a 45 zone.