RIAA wins judgement against poor disabled girl

[Animegamer]

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/new...efault-judgment

THE GREEDO LAWYERS for the Big Music MAFIAA have outdone themselves, falling to depths that even their harshest critics could scarcely have imagined.

They've won a default judgment for alleged copyright infringement against Ciara Sauro, 19, who is disabled with pancreatitis, beset by crushing medical debts and severely depressed.

Sauro lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her mother, who makes $8.25 per hour. The girl requires weekly hospital treatment for her medical condition and needs an islet cell transplant. She denies the illegal file-sharing allegations but didn't defend herself in court.

"Look and see where [the downloads] came from, and look and see that it's not me. It's not fair to do to me," she said.

Because she didn't appear in federal court, a judge entered a default judgment against her for nearly $8,000, for allegedly having shared just 10 tunes with others over the Internet.

"I already have severe depression. I mean, it's so hard to sit there and think that I have to get in trouble for something that I didn't do. It's not fair," said Sauro.

The mother and daughter say that Ciara's father opened the Internet account cited in the lawsuit after he moved out.

"I just want them to know that I have to go through enough stress in my life with my sickness and my family, and I don't think that they should go after people just because they want money for something that's not even fair to us."

A local attorney, James Brink, has offered to represent Ciara at no charge and ask a judge to reopen the case.

[ZekeySpaceyLizard]

[psi43]

zekey your sig is amazing

[Flash]

It would be easier if she just admitted she downloaded music and then found the judge's account in The Pirate Bay or Mininova.

[emanhattan]

thats pretty sad

[Philip K Dick]

bitch got what she deserved filesharing is WRONG and should NEVER be done on the internet, EVER

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[shittyfurryass]

quit linking that armon or i am going to have to delete it !

[Animegamer]

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Riaa

The RIAA loves to sue kids and old people who download "Happy Birthday" and other public domain Holiday songs because apparently Metallica and J-Lo aren't gonna get their diamond-encrusted Rolls-Royces unless Granny pays dearly for her crimes.

The RIAA utterly destroys over 9,000 people's lives every year by firing massive lawsuits that bankrupt them. Often people caught burning music onto blank CD's are sent to prison between 50 and 100 years and fined millions of dollars all for the minor moral wrongdoing of copying a music CD. The RIAA makes at least $150,000,000,000 per year. And the CEOs of these corporations pocket a somewhat large percentage of that money. They're angry that they can't finance $900,000 Mercedes, or buy 80 million dollar homes. They are losing a small percentage of their profits to online pirates. Of course, they want to continue their luxurious lifestyles, but in order to do that, they have to needlessly destroy thousands of people's lives, and send them to Bubba for dozens of years. When it comes to corporate greed, no corporation more classically defines it than the RIAA.

[Daveb0t]

over 9,000 people's lives

[sQueef]

that is so fucking gay

[Gmagnum]

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[Necronomitr0n]

http://radio.furfag.com/

[LordZeebmork]

lmfao zekey