Remember the RIAA's lawsuit against Tanya Andersen? Here's a quick review: The Recording Industry Association of America slapped a file-sharing lawsuit against Andersen, a 41 year old disabled single mother living in Oregon, supposedly for downloading songs on her PC using Kazaa.
After a while, Tonya then hit back, countersuing the RIAA for Oregon RICO violations, fraud, invasion of privacy, abuse of process, electronic trespass, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, negligent misrepresentation, the tort of "outrage", and deceptive business practices.
Here's where we are right now.
U.S. District Judge James A. Redden of Oregon has just awarded Anderson $108,000 in legal fees to compensate for defending herself against the the RIAA. Judge Redden ruled that the RIAA's arguments against legal fees were "misplaced."
Earlier in August, a federal judge already ordered the RIAA to pay $68,685 in litigation costs to two Oklahoma women whose cases were dismissed.
That'll show the RIAA for suing everyone they declare a file-sharer, even without any hard evidence.
According to the Attack of The Show Blog:
The RIAA dropped the case against Andersen last year after concluding “her hard drive didn't contain purloined music tracks. The RIAA initially claimed a Kazaa shared directory that linked to her internet-protocol address was unlawfully distributing thousands of songs.”
In response to the lawsuit against her, Andersen has countersued the RIAA in a case seeking class-action status to represent the thousands of persons she believes have been wrongly sued by the RIAA. That case has been dismissed three times, and its fourth try is pending.
Can't wait to see what happens next.
Sources:
G4TV's Attack of The Show Blog: RIAA Must Pay P2P Legal Fees
Wired.com: Judge Orders Legal Fees in RIAA v Andersen
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