Good news folks, the legal charlatans who file cases on behalf of the RIAA have been forced to agree to yet another case dismissal after it turned out that they once again had no proof of any infringing activity by the victim when confronted in court.
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2006/07/riaa-discontinued-case-in-california.htmlWe have recently learned of a case in California, Virgin Records v. M*****, where earlier this year, after 6 months of litigation, the RIAA dropped the case.
As in all of the RIAA cases, the only basis the RIAA had for its claim against Mrs. M***** was that she paid for the internet access and owned the computer on which the shared files folder resided.
Faced with evidence that numerous other people had access to the Internet connection and/or the computer and that any of those people could have engaged in the allegedly infringing conduct, the RIAA agreed to dismiss.
I think its clear that the legal firms operating this extortion are whats known in the trade as "ambulance chasers", their role seems purely to litigate until the victim has no funds to defend the action.
Dismissals of cases such as the above are becoming more common as many are now realising that just because their name is on the ISP bill this does not make them liable unless they concede that they did in fact commit infringing activity, in a few cases now its become clear that no real evidence is backing these frivolous lawsuits, something the American Bar Association should look carefully into.
