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RIAA wins default judgement
THE GREEDO LAWYERS for the Big Music MAFIAA have outdone themselves, falling to depths that even their harshest critics could scarcely have imagined.
They've won a default judgment for alleged copyright infringement against Ciara Sauro, 19, who is disabled with pancreatitis, beset by crushing medical debts and severely depressed.
Sauro lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her mother, who makes $8.25 per hour. The girl requires weekly hospital treatment for her medical condition and needs an islet cell transplant. She denies the illegal file-sharing allegations but didn't defend herself in court.
"Look and see where [the downloads] came from, and look and see that it's not me. It's not fair to do to me," she said.
Because she didn't appear in federal court, a judge entered a default judgment against her for nearly $8,000, for allegedly having shared just 10 tunes with others over the Internet.
"I already have severe depression. I mean, it's so hard to sit there and think that I have to get in trouble for something that I didn't do. It's not fair," said Sauro.
The mother and daughter say that Ciara's father opened the Internet account cited in the lawsuit after he moved out.
"I just want them to know that I have to go through enough stress in my life with my sickness and my family, and I don't think that they should go after people just because they want money for something that's not even fair to us."
A local attorney, James Brink, has offered to represent Ciara at no charge and ask a judge to reopen the case. ยต
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The answer is simple - all of us in the office have decided that no more Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG products will be purchased. Lets do the maths - 43 staff spending maybe $16.00 per month on CD's comes to $8,256.00 less the $8,000.00 from the fine. Brilliant a $256.00 loss, now multiply this with all the offices in the 12 story building.
This is why I sell my music independently on the internet. To avoid becoming a slave to the MAFIAA.
how low the low can go

its the most appauling and disgusting disgrace of justice and default judgment i have ever heard, its as thought the judge didnt have any information or a care for the poor woman but typical of most people like that, they cant see past their own cash balances
Eh? Default judgement? Isn't the law supposed to prove guilt or something like that, rather than prove innocence? Said the sadly innocent / nieve...