To Fight RIAA Lawsuit Mom Solicits Donations
> My choice to fight the RIAA’s lawsuit was made when I received a call from a settlement center saying I’d already been sued. I assumed that once I explained to them that there was no music on my computer and that I never had purchased or signed up for a peer-to-peer program and actually didn’t even know what it was, that they’d drop the entire thing.
> The copy of the lawsuit that I received after being named had a KAZAA account with an e-mail I did not recognize and which didn’t belong to anyone in my family.
The RIAA has so far sued ~17000 people, and not one case has gone to court. Each and every one of them have decided to settle outside of court, giving the RIAA quite a nice income.
Patti Santangelo has decided to fight, but she’s running out of funds. A PayPal account is being set up for donations, and hopefully the people wanting to see the RIAA go down in flames and put an end to this gestapo-like suing will contribute a bit towards her defense.
