RIAA faces the music

TANYA ANDERSEN HAS REFILED her suit against The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), a move which will almost certainly lead to the heavy-handed organisation's tactics being exposed for the first time.

Andersen charges that the RIAA used unlicensed investigators to gather information and was in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.

The new complaint will ask for information on how the RIAA and its investigators gathered information on suspected file sharers. Andersen's legal team suggest that the group's insistence upon keeping its techniques veiled in secrecy casts doubts on the legality of those methods.

Andersen, who had fully cooperated with RIAA, claimed that the group had gone so far as to badger her eight-year-old daughter and that the group continued its case even after it became obvious that she was not guilty.

If the case is successful it would almost certainly set a precedent for other individuals being pursued through the courts for file sharing activity. µ