RIAA, Safenet Sued For Malicious Prosecution

DaveAtFraud writes "Tanya Anderson, the single mother from Oregon previously sued by the RIAA — which dropped the case just before losing a summary judgement — is now suing the RIAA and their hired snoop Safenet for malicious prosecution. (Safenet was formerly known as MediaSentry.) Anderson is asserting claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act. A reader at Groklaw has already picked up that she is seeking to have the RIAA forfeit the copyrights in question as part of the settlement (search the page for '18.6-7')."

Re:Give up the copyrights?

[rovingeyes]

Does she seriously expect the courts to award such a devastating judgement against one of the richest IP holding organizations in the country? She is disabled, not retarded.

Re:The RIAA don't have copyrights..

[Speedracer1870]

As in Music Company #1-14 as defendants? John Doe was getting rather old anyways.

Re:Give up the copyrights?

[the_weasel]

WVRYX HHYRE THREF MUNGE 1H4UI...

Oh, sorry. I thought you said Crypto-Fascist. My mistake.

Re:Give up the copyrights?

[Anonymous Coward]

More importantly, does she think that a trade association owns the copyrights?

Even more importantly, do you know how to RTFA?

Re:Give up the copyrights?

[ShaneThePain]

stop using "fascist" incorrectly. Its rude to all the true fascists, like myself.

Re:Give up the copyrights?

[f1055man]

This story made me happy. Your comment made me very happy. Damn, I wish I had mod points.

Re:Give up the copyrights?

[Selivanow]

Me Too :) Never seem to have mod points when I want to use them. I always manage to get them when people post nothing but dog drool....um wait...

Gaah, my eyes!!

[madbawa]

I should really take more breaks from looking at the monitor, I read the title as " RIAA, Safenet Sued For Malicious Prostitution"

This thread really needs a car analogy

[Anonymous Coward]

Alternatively: Hitler. :)

Re:How to avoid a jury trial/force a settlement?

[nomadic]

where 12 of you're pears

Mmmmm, jurylicious.

Dia-RIAA

[LaerKH]

Let's see... Dia- is a prefix meaning through or across. These lawsuits go through or across the RIAA. Sounds like DiaRIAA should be the term used to describe their attacks on people. :P

Re:How to avoid a jury trial/force a settlement?

[DittoBox]

12 of you're pears

I was under the impression that most spherical, homo-sapien anatomy, did indeed, come in pairs. Two, not twelve. Unless you're jiggling down multiple sets into a single lump sum, which is interesting because I was also under the impression that when referring to one's "pears" most people only have a single set, and the type of "pears" we're referring to, and their respective locations differ between the male and female anatomies. I think maybe however my take on your writing style is bulging out of proportion.

This thread, is officially a lemon.

Re:Hope she has money

[ari_j]

10,000 / $250 = 400 hours

I hope you don't bill $250/hour for your arithmetic time.

Re:Give up the copyrights?

[AoT]

Your all lower-case style of posting shows you to be on the cutting edge of post-moderism

Is that the time when /. has gotten rid of all the mods?

Fucking sweet!

We are finally free from the tyrannical rule of the mods! All rejoice!

Re:Give up the copyrights?

[Thwomp]

That's my Windows XP key you insensitive clod!

Re:Give up the copyrights?

[savorymedia]

either way, wethepeople win

Who exactly are these "wet he-people"...?!?

Damn! Is my Freudian slip showing again? *sigh*

Re:Give up the copyrights?

[AndersOSU]

Yeah, except she patented, A method for extracting dollars from blood sucking trolls so now anyone who sues the RIAA will have to pay her royalties :\

Re:Give up the copyrights?

[Zencyde]

No. What you're looking for is "mod-posterism". You can't post and mod at the same time, right? Unless, of course, you're CowboyNeal.

Re:Give up the copyrights?

[jabber]

Mine too!

Stop! Thief!

She is snot guilty!

[GSwarthout]

Page 23, Section 10.3 of the action filed says that "Ms. Andersen was never observed downloading any mucis". A defense like that is nothing to sneeze at! The RIAA needs to be exposed for being the flim-phlegm men they are.

OT - Re:Gaah, my eyes!!

[The Angry Mick]

True story:

In the early days of OCR, one of our attorneys wanted to see if he could scan a ton of his old hard copy docs into the computer and said he'd heard how wonderful scanners were. In spite of my repeated explanations of how immature the tech was (think 1.0), he insisted, so I had him send down a couple of docs for a test.

Needless to say, the resulting OCR scan was a ridiculous mess. The "old fashioned" font used for "United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia" came out as:

____________________@____________________

But the funniest side effect was seeing "witness for the prosecution" converted to "witness to the prostitution".