So everyone knows about the RIAA's lawsuits against P2P music downloaders. The consider them all pirates for downloading (without paying royalties) music.
Michele Scimeca of Morris NJ, has filed papers in U.S. District Court in Newark that music labels are using "scare tactics (that) amount to extortion". She's being sued by Record labels, and she's countersuiing Sony Music Entertainment Inc., UMG Recordings, Inc. and Motowon Record Co. L.P. She's also claiming mail and bank fraud laws have been violated because the papers were served to her using the US Postal System.
The full story is here.
Posted by yakuza at February 19, 2004 11:11 AM | TrackBack