Would be hillarious if this was to be approved for class action. All those thousands of people the RIAA bullied asking for payback. The cost to the RIAA would be enourmous.

The only good news in this crappy day. But it's a Damn Good One.

Now could you please announce that MS has been dismantled for violating the antitrust laws, and that they will have to pay a multi-million $ fine for making crap software?

Please announce that on... let me check my blackberry... next Tuesday would be great.

Now maybe she can file criminal charges of pre-texting, fraud, and extortion against the individuals involved in impersonating her mother, mis-representing damages, and using pressure to force her into a settlement, respectively.

With his pending election, I would have thought that this would have been a wonderful opportunity for BPI chief Geoff Taylor to make a comment to Her Majesty's loyal netizens. Perhaps something about progressive agendas and his love for villainy? No?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/16/geoff_taylor_bpi_bites_back_filesharing/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/15/ispa_bpi_villain/

Good luck to her and may many spiteful things happen to them in the meantime!

... before the RIAA picked on someone who would take a stand against their draconian policies.

I'm not fond of the litigatious culture in the US (due to the damage it's doing in the UK as we blindly follow this lead), but this is one time i can agree with whats happening.

Good Luck to Ms Andersen !

To complete the fullfilling of my wildest dreams -and my previous comment-, could you also publish soon something about Mister Appleware being caught pants down in some adult man-on-man action in public loos, in the US airport of your choice? Please do that on next Friday, or on Thursday the week after, because I expect a lot of luser-related annoyance on these days. I could use the cheer-up effect.

Alternatively, just tell us the amount of cash that will come out of the RIAA greedy hands to the profit of their victim(s). The same dates would be über-cool.

I agree. Good luck to her.

Why on earth were the RIAA ringing up a 10 year old girl pretending to be her grandmother? I think that alone should land the person responsible in prison. In the UK I am pretty sure it would.

Wierd, sick, twisted bastards.

Well done for the woman for seeing this case through to the end

Always good to hear that these underhanded thugs are getting a taste of their own medicine. There's a difference between protecting music copyright and persecuting citizens. Maybe a few more of these will remind them.

No matter if she wins or not, regardless of whether she successfully gets class action status (leading to a huge and long, drawn-out case and series of appeals on behalf of the RIAA), it'll be the lawyers who win again. :(

multi-million $ fine and MS?

Surely we could aim higher than the loose change Mr Gates loses down the back of his sofa?

Tut tut. That should be "hoisting the RIAA WITH its own petard".

I'll get my bomber jacket.

... they'd be in serious danger of a knock from plod.

"Excuse me, Mr/Missis RIAA employee. Is it true that you assumed another identity to contact a child ? Are you aware of the UKs grooming laws ?"

Isn't it time that the law was changed so that LAWYERS who threaten an obviously improper prosecution such as this one had to pay compensation, with no ability permitted to pass any of their costs on to their customer?

If we did that, then lawyers would no longer have a licence to print money REGARDLESS of whether they win or lose and they would be slightly more careful about starting threats where they had not already seen and verified the evidence.

Result -- less substantially less unsubstantiable threats -- a good thing all round.

Mizz Andersen for Prez, sez I...

This has made my weekend

my grandma listens to Tupac.....GUILTY

"Titles such as the 2003 Ludacris tune, "Hoes in My Room," in which the artist inquires who invited several undesirable women into his penthouse, and describes them in humorous detail."

I have never felt so white and nerdy in all my life... speaking of which, can you give me a description of Wierd Al's White n Nerdy track too...

Well, look at this picture: http://regmedia.co.uk/2008/01/15/geoff_taylor.jpg

What do you expect from such worm-like entities like *this*?

Parasites only care about their own gain, nothing else, remember...

The RIAA, record labels, radio, mp3 sites, etc. could take bold step and encrypt every track on every new CD or download with a code that would give an accurate accounting for every radio play, download, etc. However, then the whole system would be much more accountable and they would have to pay all the little people! ASCAP and BMI could downsize - the whole shell game of accounting would be much more transparent.

Excellent.

It's high time the RIAA get their arse handed to them in court. This story made my day and made me proud to be an independent musician.

Nice , a pity the cheap lawyers at RIAA cut corners to undervalue her original win by 50% by being mean cheap and niggardly and undervaluing her lawyers pay rate from specialist to far less then the court approve para-legal fees , for they be cheap fools who failed to distinguish the finer points of law and the differences in both Federal and State Civil Case law thus becoming permanent adherents of the "Peter Principle" for life !

That being so in an absolute moment of stupidity , I recall the Judge presiding over that case was extremely caustic after giving his final ruling on the fees when they still tried to avoid paying them and then some what less intelligent manner of absolute incompetence they then very deliberately delayed payment beyond the agreed settlement term and sent her the monies directly rather then her lawyer who was entitled to monies in order to cause her problems with the local State and Federal Taxes as well ! Malicious idiots they be as well as thick and stupid !

As for the life of me when they were losing , had no legs to stand on so as to speak thus as to why their agents chose to impersonate and falsely represent themselves as other people when seeking to attempt to illegally serve a minor is well beyond the scope of gross incompetence when similar tactics had failed miserably in California showed themselves as totally clueless planks of wood first class !

This time around due to civil suit litigation liability limits laws across Amerika in both Federal level (Drug & Insurance Companies lobbied for that one) and in many States as well , I presume that is the chief reason for seeking class action status to multiply at least one hundred thousand fold or more any penalty that would be awarded thus far !

Her opponents have for the second time around no real legal legs to stand upon so as to speak , but one wonders why the Oregon State Attorney General has failed to file real criminal charges of fraud and numerous other broken laws as well against the idiotic miscreants involved RICO inclusive for the second offence given the numerous State and Federal laws they have clearly broken at the time of the offence ! Or are they waiting for the civil case to deliver a case that only a fool or a total idiot could lose in the much flawed Yankee Criminal Injustice System !

Oh well were warned about these incompetent idiots back in the late sixties , so what price Idiocracy indeed ?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=heystoopid+%22peter+principle%22

Do you see how repetitive you've become?

>> Notably, she claimed RIAA agents tried to contact her then 10-year-old daughter

>> at school by impersonating the girl's grandmother on the phone.

What big money grubbing lawyers you have granny.

@gianni tell that to the New York Times when the book in question made the best seller list for well in excess of forty weeks when first released and the millions plus that have since read the same tome !

As they say one should tell it like it is or else the idiots just keep on multiplying add infinitum !