RIAA Found To Have Sued Yet Another Woman Without A Computer
from the sterling-investigative-techniques dept
While the RIAA insists that it's stopped its lawsuit campaign, it's still moving forward with existing lawsuits -- including one against yet another woman who claims not to have even owned a computer on the date she was accused of file sharing. Now it's possible that the woman is lying -- but if that's the case, she's going to be in a lot more trouble than for sharing some music files. This is not the first time the RIAA was found to have sued people without a computer either -- which again just serves to raise significant questions about the RIAA's "investigative" techniques.![Hide This Hide this](https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/topclose.png)
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And Printers
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"investigative" techniques
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IF
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Even if this particular person is not telling the whole truth, there's many other who have been falsely accused. If these civil suits had the same burden of proof as a criminal case, they'd be laughed out of the room.
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> the whole truth, there's many other who have
> been falsely accused.
Yep. It's a question of credibility at this point and the RIAA's past behavior means they have none.
As a result, the benefit of the doubt goes to the accused in this case. She's assumed to be telling the truth until it's proven otherwise because we *know* the RIAA doesn't tell the truth.
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Identity Theft, not I said the Pirate
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Remember, this case is part of the statistics they use to try and force your ISP to cut your internet connection when they suspect you of wrongdoing. How anyone can support these idiots is beyond me.
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Not to mention the fact that any legal fees spend on suing this woman is money down the drain - she couldn't possibly have pirated the music they "lost", so there's no profits to gain by suing her...
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It went like this....
MegaRecords Exec: "Say Bob, did you look into alternate ways to curb this damn piracy the other day like I asked?"
Bob: "Sure boss. Spent 5 hours on it."
MegaRecords Exec: "Great! Call the lawyers. Let's sue away!"
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RIAA
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Why care about evidence?
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Story from a few days ago ...
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RIAA YADA YADA YADA
i refuse to spend the money the cd,so i download the track i like.if the riaa stops me that's not going to convince me to spend 10 or 12 bucks on that one track..i'll do without it. most dowmloaders using p2p software feel the same way i do.so nobody's losing money that won't be spent regardless of the situation. the riaa is such an arrogant organisation.
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