RIAA pirate case thrown out of court

THE Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been told by a Judge that if it wants to sue P2P pirates in his court it will have to actually present some evidence.

For ages, perhaps since the beginning of time, the RIAA has been making huge piles of cash by threatening people with legal action on the basis of 'evidence' they have gathered. However, it recently tried to streamline the process by doing less research on each case.

Now it seems that one of its streamlined cases has got to court and Judge Rudi Brewster says that the evidence was pants, or legal words to that effect. Brewster, presiding over case of Interscope v. Rodriguez, cause refused to grant a default judgement in favour of the RIAA.

The defendant never responded to the complaint against her and basically ignored the RIAA.

However, Brewster said that the RIAA can't use its standard streamlined complaint because it lacks any proof that the defendant committed copyright infringement.

He said that the RIAA has to present at least some facts to show the plausibility of their allegations of copyright infringement against the defendant.

The way that the RIAA has structured its case is simply assuming that the judge will give a default ruling. Brewster said that the level of evidence supplied required him to fine or jail someone on the basis of speculation.

This means that the RIAA will have to either go through an expensive evidence gathering procedure or go for even more costly trials on every P2P piracy case.

If you are interested in this story, then you can read even more about it by pointing your pointing device here. µ