Wednesday, December 07, 2005

p2pnet Editorial Deplores Uneven Playing Field in RIAA Litigations

p2pnet has written an editorial deploring the uneven playing field in the RIAA v. Consumer litigations:

1st RIAA trial: victim to defend herself

p2p news / p2pnet: Laws were written to protect people, not to give huge, multi-billion dollar mega-corporations a way to terrorize them.


Will the law work equally well for an ordinary person with no heavyweight legal team and no unimaginably vast financial resources behind her?


Patricia Santangelo will find out as she represents herself in the first of the 17,000 or so Organized Music p2p file sharing cases to actually go to trial.


Santangelo, the mother of five children, was the first person to dare to stand up to Sony BMG, Vivendi Universal, Warner Music and EMI, the Big Four members of the Organized Music cartel. And up until now, she's had the New York firm of Beldock Levine & Hoffman working for her.


Complete article.


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