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Divorced mom of five may challenge RIAA
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article published on 15 August, 2005
Patricia Santangelo, a divorced mother of five children, is one of the thousands of victims of lawsuits by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) aimed at P2P filesharers. The record companies say her computer and internet account were used to illegally distribute copyrighted music through P2P networks. Many of the past lawsuit victims settled for sums ranging from $3,000 to ... [ read the full article ]
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15. August 2005 @ 22:47 |
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wow gj fight those idiots!
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15. August 2005 @ 22:51 |
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Good for her. I wish her the best because you know the RIAA is going to come down on her with all they've got. The RIAA is nothing but a bunch of damn bullies anyway.
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Letukka
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16. August 2005 @ 00:10 |
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That´s my girl! How can I show my support to this brave woman?
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16. August 2005 @ 01:06 |
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Don't worry bout a thing it's gonna be alright.
I don't see why you have to pay RIAA if the stuff is to you free on the net.Just keep the faith and it will be okay.
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lex
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16. August 2005 @ 01:16 |
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Good on her. The riaa disgust me
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16. August 2005 @ 03:41 |
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good on ya! giv em hell. bitches
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kite
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16. August 2005 @ 05:02 |
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It's about time someone decided to fight them. You gotta love what she is doing.
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Shinraboy
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16. August 2005 @ 07:08 |
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Hell yeah. Finally, someone to get back at those
Blowholes.
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john_jaxs
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16. August 2005 @ 07:50 |
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This lawsuit could make or break the lawsuits that RIAA uses, and could be the most landmark case in terms of rights of the people who use p2p. Also this is actually one of the very most important case that the org's fighting the RIAA has been waiting for, this should set the precedent of how much information that the RIAA needs to sue people and thus they should do what ever they can to support her.
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newtod
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16. August 2005 @ 08:49 |
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I've always wondered how the RIAA can sue someone without proving that they were the person downloading. Usually a writ has to be brought against a specific party. With 6 people in the family, surely they must have to prove who exactly was doing the downloading or they could face counter writs. Athough IANAL.
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mickK
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16. August 2005 @ 08:55 |
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I hope she wins this then everyone who get these letters from the RIAA will take them to court. I would anyway it would cost the RIAA alot of money if all the people they are accusing of downloading took them to court.
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16. August 2005 @ 09:54 |
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16. August 2005 @ 12:27 |
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Make the RIAA suffer. After you win this case, counter-sue for harassment and invasion of privacy. Muhahaha! >:-)
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daz2712
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16. August 2005 @ 15:22 |
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Her connection could have been hijacked and therefore she would have had no knowledge of this downloading!
LOL,deny everything!
Fuck em! The emphasis is on them to prove without reasonable doubt that SHE was the one doing the downloading.
They will NEVER prove that because if they had the potential to do it then she could counter claim for invasion of privacy
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Buik
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16. August 2005 @ 17:36 |
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Why is it when the government conducts counter terrorism operations on the Internet, everyone screams bloddy murder. But, when a non-government entity (RIAA) engages in espionage, there is not a peep about invasion of privacy????
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16. August 2005 @ 20:00 |
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Bout time some one decided to fight back , I wish her the best and hope she crushes em in court.
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16. August 2005 @ 22:18 |
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So they cant go and get the big guys they have to go and get a woman and a single mum. Well I am brought up by my mum and shes a single parent and their a lot stronger than these people think. So i just wish her the best and i hope she wins her case. :)
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ripfuel
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17. August 2005 @ 05:01 |
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Someone or some big company that has money needs to fight these bastards. Just because someone has Kazaa or another P2P program on the PC in the home does not mean they are ripping off The big wheels at the record company. When will it all end> when we have to scramble our TV signals to watch free TV? Take on the giants with enough man or money power & they will think twice!
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17. August 2005 @ 05:11 |
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Good for her, hope she wins and then all the other people who got railroaded because they were afraid to fight can come back and sue. Maybe someone will finally take a look at RIAA tactics.
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17. August 2005 @ 07:52 |
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Good luck to her. So does anyone know how we can support her besides sending her $$$ for the court fees ??
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john_jaxs
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17. August 2005 @ 08:21 |
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A idea on how you can support her besides sending her money (which she has not asked for, just to mention that), you can found out where to send her lawyer facts (not opinions) about p2p and its legal surroundings.
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JaguarGod
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17. August 2005 @ 11:39 |
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I think a good start on supporting her would be to send her a program (or link to a program) that wipes her HD of all evidence. Formatting is never enough. If there is no evidence of Kazaa or any mp3 ever on her HD it would be a tough case for RIAA.
Also, there are programs that can easily Hijack PCs without the owner/user even knowing. While doing this the hijacker can easily run any program in the background or simply use the Hijacked PC as a connection hub, and using the hijacked PC's IP rather than their own in order to do whatever they wish on the internet.
Hopefully they didn't Impound the PC and Ms. Santangelo can wipe her HD using the Peter Gutman method of Destruction. There will be no evidence of anything on her PC's hard drive at all. BCWipe is a good Free Program which also wipes Swap Space and other temporary space. Then something like Evidence Eliminator or Detection Master (used for trial trial period) can be used to take care of misc. stuff like click history, save/open history, progam logs, backups, and do some type of anti-magnetic resonance underwriting, etc...
After that, format, wipe drive again using new or external HD with OS and the drive is clean of everything. This will defeat even scanning of the HD with powerful electron microscopes. There will be no trace of anything and lots of wasted $$$ of the RIAA.
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kschewe
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17. August 2005 @ 15:06 |
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I would counter sue those bastards
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denzilla
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17. August 2005 @ 15:33 |
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My God, please defeat these scumbags and lets put an end to this idiotic misuse of the legal system.
She should start accepting legal fund donations through Paypal.
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steve7059
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18. August 2005 @ 09:08 |
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Before we start sending donations, let's see if this even goes to trial. Now that she's called the RIAA's bluff, maybe they'll just back down completely and drop it on some made-up pretext.
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