RIAA Sues 12-Year Old Girl 1872
tcp100 noted an article running at fox about
The RIAA suing a 12 Year Old girl: "'I got really scared. My stomach is all turning,' Brianna said last night at the city Housing Authority apartment where she lives with her mom and her 9-year-old brother."
Click bang !! (Score:5, Funny)
haha suckers (Score:2, Funny)
gotta get at 'em young... (Score:5, Funny)
nip it in the bud!
girlie mp3 warez shutdown (Score:5, Funny)
Hehe, spoke (Score:4, Funny)
"When reporters visited teh apartment last night, Brianna..."
WILDCAT?!? Is that yuo?!?
Smooth PR Move, RIAA (Score:3, Funny)
Exactly. (Score:5, Funny)
If the piracy continues the recording industry may we wiped out, then would would all those poor executives do? The can't all join SCO.
Never sue poor people (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe the can take a cut of the income from her paper-route.
GOOD! (Score:2, Funny)
Good Lord (Score:5, Funny)
And in further news, the RIAA and SCO have teamed up to kick a 6 year old's puppy. Film at 11!
Re:Says a lot (Score:5, Funny)
pirate? (Score:0, Funny)
Monsters Inc (Score:4, Funny)
12 year old kid: Mommmmeeee come quick! There's a big bad slobbering RIAA-man under my bed! *sob*
Mommy: Don't worry sweetheart, we will make the big nasty RIAA-man go away. Take that *biff* *bash*. There you go honey, go to sleep now, he's dead.
Set up? (Score:5, Funny)
It's almost as though it was a setup. The only thing that was missing was the fact that she wasn't in a wheelchair.
Settlement? (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Set up? (Score:1, Funny)
Kazaa (Score:1, Funny)
Wow, all this time I've been paying $49.99 to use Kazaa!!
Re:gotta get at 'em young... (Score:3, Funny)
"It's not like we were doing anything illegal," said Torres. "This is a 12-year-old girl, for crying out loud."
From here I can already see Bill O'Reilly on his soap box, and I live in Australia.
-- james
Re: Set up? (Score:5, Funny)
> It's almost as though it was a setup. The only thing that was missing was the fact that she wasn't in a wheelchair.
The only thing missing is that it was on FOX instead of The Onion.
Re:girlie mp3 warez shutdown (Score:5, Funny)
Cary Sherman,
RIAA President
Re:Set up? (Score:2, Funny)
It's almost as though it was a setup. The only thing that was missing was the fact that she wasn't in a wheelchair.
And the fact they took her dialysis machine and the spare kidney she was due to be given as a downpayment on her fine.Re:Smooth move. (Score:1, Funny)
If we let 12 year olds steal music, the terrorists will have won!
Re:Monsters Inc (Score:2, Funny)
I think you've got it the wrong way round. After this plays out, it's not going to be the kids scared of the RIAA reps.
It's gonna be the RIAA reps scared of kids.
-- james
Re:What...the fuck? (Score:0, Funny)
teh l33t.
not.
Daniel
Now be nice. (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Set up? (Score:5, Funny)
I know her! I bought a box of Camp Girl Cookies from her! She was trying to raise enough money to buy a flag, as all they can afford is a piece of sackcloth, but they salute that raggedy old thing and sing the Star Spangled Banner at the top of their little tuberculosis ravaged voices like the bravest little patriots you've ever seen.
Re:Says a lot (Score:2, Funny)
I doubt it. The article says the girl was an honors student, so that would put her at least one up on the RIAA and higher still than the Fox writer who misspelled the word "the" in the article.
Re:Smooth move. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In case of /.'ing (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Click bang !! (Score:5, Funny)
Jaysyn
Fox news are teh trolls (Score:3, Funny)
"When reporters visited teh apartment last night, Brianna -- who her mom says is an honors student -- was helping her brother with his homework."
Who knew that Slashdot trolls were writing articles at FoxNews?
There's a silver lining here. (Score:2, Funny)
That's good, isn't it?
Darl McFeiss (Score:0, Funny)
I was writing a malloc routine, on the PC, and it was like bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep. And then, like half of my malloc was under the GPL. And I was like... huh? It devoured my malloc. It was a really good malloc. And then I had to write it again, and I had to do it in Greek letters, so it wasn't as good. It's kind of... a bummer.
I'm Darl McFeiss, and I'm a CEO.
Re:gotta get at 'em young... (Score:5, Funny)
I hope so!
-John Banks
Re:In case of /.'ing (Score:5, Funny)
In related news ... (Score:3, Funny)
In oher news (Score:5, Funny)
A RIAA representative said "SInce this kid is not going to forget this lullaby ever again, were thinking of lobotomizing it so we get back our intellectual property"
You think that's absurd! (Score:2, Funny)
"Oh no Baxter! Looks like you're going to do some hard time unless you don't come up with $150 million dollars quick."
That's 1000 songs at $150,000 a pop. Makes the $20 you're paying for 10 or so songs seem cheap, now doesn't it?
Is downloading music illegal? Sure seems that way, Baxter. But is it fun? Oh yeah!
Re:Click bang !! (Score:3, Funny)
What about Mafiaboy? (Score:2, Funny)
It is interesting to see Fox News coming to the rescue here. I thought it would be more like....
"Evil non-conservative parents in an inner city neighborhood encourage child to steal music..."
Is someone asleep at the wheel at FOX? Geeze they should hire me to prevent these liberal whiney stories from making it to the air! At the very least, put the right spin on it Fox!!
Excellent! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Excellent! (Score:2, Funny)
Re: Set up? (Score:5, Funny)
I agree. This would have made the thing much more credible.
Thomas Miconi
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Re:In case of /.'ing (Score:2, Funny)
Surely a minor can be taken to court for serious crimes? Like murder and terrorism?
The Moral Is... (Score:5, Funny)
Time for EFF to do a "reverse-sting" - have 12-year old girls pose as 35 year-old male file-sharers with the goal of drawing more RIAA lawsuits.
(The reciprocal of how law-enforcement snags pedophiles in chat rooms - they have 35 year-old men posing as 12 year-old girls).
Re:Click bang !! (Score:5, Funny)
"RIAA TO BEING WHIPPING CHILDREN"
In a statement released by Riaa president Slain Brosko
"After unsuccessfully using price gouging, poor music quality and then obnoxious lawsuits to drive our customers from the stores, the little bastards are still trying to buy CDs! We figure after we whip a few dozen children, they'll all learn to stay home and just download content that's being shared from other countries. Though on that front we've just heard from Donald Rumsfield that he'll loan us a couple stealth bombers to take out those little bastards too!" The president then burst into some manical laughter for a few minutes before eating a wriggling frog from jar and pulling a lever that dropped a rather cute dancing girl into the jaws of a Rancor.
Re:Excellent! (Score:5, Funny)
First the MPAA, then the RIAA, then SCO.... (Score:1, Funny)
Irony (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Poor? Oh really? (Score:5, Funny)
Life imitates Art (Score:5, Funny)
RIAA and the face of evil - $39 billion ain't bad (Score:3, Funny)
Also, the BBC [bbc.co.uk] has a look at other 'victims' of the court cases
Let's see now - 261 people, assuming each shared 1000 songs (which I believe was the cap at which RIAA selected their litigants) - @$150000 a song - they expect $39,150,000,000($39 Billion smackeroos!!!). Assuming each case settles at $50000, the RIAA still stands to make $13,050,000 just from this 'spook & awe' campaign
Not bad for a 'sunset industry'
Re:Excellent! (Score:5, Funny)
Greedo: Hey little girl, would you like to come home with me and share some files?
Little Girl: Eeeek! Help help help!
Ghost of Charles Bronson: Time to die little man
*bang* *bang* *bang*
Greedo: Gurgle gurgle
Re:Click bang !! (Score:5, Funny)
Leave me out of this, OK? I value my privacy and don't like being used in examples.
Re:Click bang !! (Score:2, Funny)
I am just waiting for the RIAA to blindly sue a recording artist by mistake, now I think that would be funny. I know there has to be some artist that download from P2P servers, if for no other reason than they don't want to go through the hassle of getting recognized at the music store and sign autographs for an hour.
Do the crime (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Click bang !! (Score:5, Funny)
I also prefer to spin around in my Ford Focus. It's easier to park, the kid usually beats me to the Porsche anyway, and it gives the folks I lay off less ammunition to call me a money grubbing SOB.
And for the record I don't use Kazaa, I use the Darwin port of Gnuetella on my Ti-Book. Just for the hard to get titles I can't find on Amazon. Hell, some Grateful dead dubs are ONLY available on the net.
Re:Click bang !! (Score:3, Funny)
you say you were just researching for a school paper on music piracy.
Re:Smooth move. (Score:1, Funny)
You shouldn't talk about whores like that. They provide a vital public service, as opposed to the RIAA.
Re:Excellent! (Score:3, Funny)
[Shakes fist in air]
Those bastards!! What heinous crime will they commit next?!
Re:Click bang !! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Click bang !! (Score:2, Funny)
Jaysyn
TAHTL TEACH HER!111! WTF LOL (Score:3, Funny)
*cough* [homestead.com]
RIAA sues DOG (Score:1, Funny)
the Dog's owner, had this to say:
"Yeah, my dog likes listening to britney, so I tought her how to download her songs from Kazza"
since the Dog was the only user of the account in question, the RIAA decided to go ahead, and sued the dog for 12 million dollars.
Two weeks later, Britney published a new album titled "Songs for the dogs".
(yes, it's fictional, but it's fitting, isn't it?)
Re:Poor? Oh really? (Score:3, Funny)
They're far too difficult to configure...