Is your music legal.....

[Renegade]

The RIAA has nailed one of the most prolific file-traders in the U.S., filing a lawsuit against 12-year-old Brianna LaHara.

When not at the playground with her friends, “Biggie Brianna” is trading music files from her home in New York. The little girl received one of the 261 lawsuits filed by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) on Monday, according to the New York Post. She may look like a sweet and innocent child, but the RIAA says it’s only going after major copyright violators at the moment. So you make the call.
Brianna could face charges of up to $150,000 per infringed song, but we have a feeling this might be a tad unrealistic. We suggest the RIAA take all of her toys instead.

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Death is no obstacle to feeling the long arm of the Recording Industry Ass. of America.

Lawyers representing several record companies have filed suit against an 83-year old woman who died in December, claiming that she made more than 700 songs available on the internet.

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[Avtar]

Hmm, out of the 3,370 songs I have, I doubt any of them are legal.

[XTerminator]

Yo,
dis means look out for da RIAA:tongue:

[SmoothCriminal]

@Avtar

Hmm, out of the 3,370 songs I have, I doubt any of them are legal.

Aah, soon we can expect a news “16 year old- arrested for piracy”..

Btw.. all my music is original and legal..

[Avtar]

I didn’t say they were illegal, I just said I had a doubt.

[Radon]

errr… welll… they are legal… (ahem!)

[Params7]

You have to be afraid only if you are in the U.S. in Canada music file sharing is LEGAL!!
And India, there’s no reason to be afraid here. If RIAA catches your I.P (chances are 1 out of 100000) as soon as they find out the location is from Asia, they’ll ignore it and look for I.P’s from the U.S, after all its " Recording Industry Accociation of *America *"!

[superczar]

My 40GB + collection is ~95% fvia file-sharing:-(

[superczar]

Oh By the way this is what a quick wikipedia search yielded

Brianna LaHara is a 12-year old girl from New York who was sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on September 8, 2003 for allegedly downloading music from the Internet which led to massive public outcry against the RIAA’s heavy-handed tactics.

Amidst bad publicity the RIAA agreed to settle for $2,000.

The P2P trade group P2P United agreed to reimburse Brianna and her mother.

Grokster CEO Wayne Rosso and lifestyle website Hypothermia.us also offered to help Brianna by paying her settlement while online music retailer MusicRebellion.com gave Brianna $2,000 of free music downloads.

[_uNIx]

i use torrents.

[_HeadShot]

@superczar

Oh By the way this is what a quick wikipedia search yielded

Hehehehehehe… …This is funny…

[memories_dv]

I read this abt a month or 2 back in a CNET newsletter…and im posting to get 10 posts so i can view HTML codes in posts!