RIAA lawsuits: Defend yourself at your own risk
Posted in Legal on January 11th, 2007
RIAA copyright infringement lawsuits are filed in federal court. It's a serious legal venue where the suits grind out over years amid a flood of motions. It's not small claims court where you do it yourself. The peril is real. Lose a case and you're out tens of thousands of dollars.
On the other hand that's about how much it will cost to retain an attorney.
Darmk Liggins chose the risky pro se route to Represent himself. It's working … so far. We congratulate Mr. Liggins. He defeated RIAA's motion for summary judgment.
January 9th, 2007 at 4:53 am
I know this is digitalmusicFUTURE, I guess thats how some articles dated Jan 11 2007 are visible on Jan 9 2007
May 7th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
There are plenty of reasonable ways to defend yourself against an RIAA lawsuit over file sharing. For example, you can show how your IP address is shared by many others and it’s impossible for the RIAA to know who was actually responsible.
May 21st, 2007 at 10:52 am
There is a genuine issue of material fact that precludes granting summary judgment: whether Defendant copied or distributed any of Plaintiffs’ recordings. In his responses to the requests for admissions, Plaintiff did not admit that he copied or distributed any of Plaintiffs’ recordings. Plaintiffs have not demonstrated the absence of a genuine issue of material fact, and their motion is therefore due to be denied.
October 18th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I am going to study law! So I will defend myself.. I believe that we should all know a little bit from the laws..