RIAA v the People: Lawyers for first RIAA defendant blogging
The lawyers representing Patricia Santangelo (a suburban mom who is the first person to refuse to settle with the recording industry over a file-sharing accusation, preferring to pay a lawyer to defend her, rather than capitulate to bullying) have created a blog called RIAA vs the People where they're keeping track of the case as it goes:We are lawyers in New York City. We practice law at Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP.Link (via A Copyfighter's Musings)Through the Electronic Frontier Foundation we and our firm have undertaken to represent people in our area who have been sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for having computers whose internet accounts were used to open up peer-to-peer file sharing accounts.
We find these cases to be oppressive and unfair, as large law firms financed by the recording industry sue ordinary working people for thousands of dollars.
We have set up this blog in order to collect evidence and input about these oppressive lawsuits.
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