Elektra vs. Santangelo - A Mother Fights the RIAA

Author: Craig Lyndall — Published: Aug 29, 2005 at 8:11 pm 0 comments

The RIAA has sued a lot of people for sharing music through P2P networks like Kazaa. Many have paid off, but not many have taken their cases to court due to the possibility of expenses. Now P2PNet.com has an interview with the lawyer who thinks he is winning the case against the RIAA. He is representing Patricia Santangelo, a divorced mother of five from White Plains, New York.

I still tend to agree that massive file sharing is wrong and people should buy the music they like in order to support the artists that they like. At the same time, these lawsuits have always rubbed me the wrong way because they demand settlements rather than encouraging anyone to fight it out in court.

If this lawyer is right about his chances of winning the case (he thinks 10 out of 10) then this could really change the legal landscape of file-sharing and services like Kazaa and the original incarnation of Napster.

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Boing Boing details a conversation in the court-room transcript where the judge berates an RIAA lawyer for suggesting a trip to the RIAA's "Conference Center" where people generally succumb to the RIAA and settle their cases for the cold hard cash.

The law office representing Santangelo has set up a blog to detail the case and probably capitalize on what most of the net presumably views as a heroic stand against the RIAA.

THIS FIRST APPEARED AT FILTERINGCRAIG.COM

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