Computer illiterate mum takes on RIAA

SELF CONFESSED computer illiterate, Patricia Santangelo is taking on the RIAA after it sued her claiming she was a music pirate.

Santangelo has not got a lawyer but the legal advice that she has indicates that she should win.

Apparently, last Easter Sunday, when she was in church with her kids, the heathen RIAA snooped into her computer. She didn't have a firewall because she didn't know what one was.

The first Santangelo knew about the intrusion was when she got a note from the RIAA demanding thousands of dollars or be sued. Santangelo did not have thousands of dollars and she hadn't been file sharing. In fact, according to a judge, she couldn't tell the difference between Kazaa and a kazoo and could barely open her email.

If the downloading was done on her computer, Santangelo thinks it may have been the work of a young friend of her children. However she does not have the cash to continue the case with a lawyer and has been forced to go it alone.

Hacks observed that she was so nervous in the pre-trial, she was clearly not someone who downloaded songs like Incubus' "Nowhere Fast," Godsmack's "Whatever" and Third Eye Blind's "Semi-Charmed Life," all of which were allegedly found on her computer.

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