NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Texas grandmother Rhonda Crain got the RIAA to drop its monetary claims against her, after she filed counterclaims against the record companies for using an investigator, MediaSentry, which is not licensed to conduct investigations in the State of Texas. The RIAA elected to drop its claims, rather than wait for the Judge to decide the validity of Ms. Crain's charges (pdf) that the plaintiff record companies "were... aware that the.... private investigations company was unlicensed to conduct investigations in the State of Texas specifically, and in other states as well.....and understood that unlicensed and unlawful investigations would take place in order to provide evidence for this lawsuit, as well as thousands of others as part of a mass litigation campaign". Similar questions, about MediaSentry's unlicensed investigations, were raised recently by the State Attorney General of Oregon in Arista v. Does 1-17" Link to Original Source
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