Victim of RIAA Lawsuit Fights Back

When the RIAA sued Tanya Andersen for illegal file sharing she spent two years defending herself until the suit was finally dropped. Now she's suing the RIAA alleging they use illegal tactics in their investigations. The named defendants are Atlantic Recording Corporation, Priority Records, Capitol Records, UMG Recordings, BMG Music, RIAA, Safenet fka MediaSentry and Settlement Support Center.

The 34-page complaint alleges that the RIAA knowingly uses illegal tactics and bullying:

MediaSentry and the RIAA know that their investigations are illegal, flawed and cannot identify specific individuals that are subsequently threatened and/or sued. In a March 2004 sworn deposition MediaSentry's then president admitted to various serious flaws in the investigative scheme which all defendants know result in misidentification of individuals. Despite this knowledge, defendants have falsely represented to tens of thousands of people that they have been definitively and personally identified as a copyright infringer.

It should be interesting to see how this pans out. This woman has been fighting them for years and won't give in to intimidation. Hopefully this will be the final nail in the coffin of a malignant and outdated organization.