Given that the RIAA has sued roughly 30,000 people to date, it’s hard not to imagine she’ll find some takers who want to hop aboard the bandwagon and put an end to the group’s often malicious and always tragically misguided lawsuits.

Andersen is one of the few people who have gotten into a courtroom with the RIAA (most of those sued have settled). After a two-year battle, the case against her and her eight-year-old daughter (at the time of the filing) was recently dismissed. Her counterclaims have been ongoing, but her class action suit is a new addition to the mix.

In an unrelated case, another RIAA lawsuit defendant, Michelle Santangelo, is suing AOL and a family friend: She was targeted by the RIAA, she says, for KaZaA software that the friend installed without her knowledge. But she’s also holding AOL accountable, saying it should have filtered any potentially illegal traffic from going over its network. Interesting case, though probably not one she’ll win; I’m sure AOL’s terms of service note that it does not filter traffic, no matter what you’re doing.

Regardless, it’s nice to see some of the victims of these lawsuits striking back. The RIAA has had free rein in the legal system for far too long, and it’s time it started defending its actions instead of just being left alone to make accusations through its freewheeling, strong-arm tactics. Go Tanya!

LINK: RIAA named in first class action

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1 Posted by paralegalworkshop on Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:11PM EDT Report Abuse
New heroes are born daily, thank you Tanyia & Michelle. Its about time someone fought back against the bully/RIAA. NOW LET ALL THOSE WHO HAD SUFFERED UNITE AND REALLY STOP THE ABUSE, AND GET COMPENSATED, perhaps w/acoupon. If anyone needs help w/this in Puerto Rico contact me at paralegalworkshop@yahoo.com 2 Posted by somebodys_here on Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:16PM EDT Report Abuse
RIAA= Really Insane A-holes of America. ‘Nuff said. 3 Posted by rogueist on Fri Aug 17, 2007 6:31PM EDT Report Abuse
Ah well, the RIAA will never come after me since I have never even once downloaded anything they protect illegally, but if they do its good to know there is a class action suit I can join. They are out of control and need to be reigned in. 4 Posted by agustin2489 on Sat Aug 18, 2007 12:18PM EDT Report Abuse
Make music cheaper; that’s a realistic solution to the pirating that the RIAA seeks to stop, even if it’s trivial. 5 Posted by myjobwasoutsourced on Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:04AM EDT Report Abuse
What ever happened to the Republican laws that forbid “frivolous” lawsuits? Don’t they apply to these insane lawsuits?

He wasn’t enforcing the law, he was leveraging some jew-lawyer bullshit scare tactics to intimidate people from stealing, not his shit, but the shit of those he purportedly represented. The simple fact is, that the MPAA has no standing to sue anybody for shit. If I download Spiderman 3, and the MPAA sues me, they can go fuck themselves, it isn’t their Intellectual property. I could have it dismissed under 12(b)(6). Even if Columbia Pictures sues me, there are ways to defeat that. This is why we are all doing this with impunity. The only people paying (or refraining from downloading) are dumbass pussies who piss their pants that kike Valenti will sue them. Fuck him and his dead body. Oh, and calling him a Nazi isn’t “disgraceful”, it’s simply ridiculous, as such would give Nazis a bad name. The National Socialists cleaned up Germany. Jews like Valenti are just fucking up the U.S. and the entire planet. DEATH TO THE JEWS!!!!!!!!

Adios!

Oh and haven’t you heard…God is dead! Don’t believe me, take a look around.

I don’t really know what he did so wrong, you people are treating him like bin laden, get your heads sorted out please.

Can you honestly say you’ve never done anything “wrong” in your life? At least he did what he thought was right. You lot talking about him the way you are certainly not right.

I think you’re forgetting here, that really us people using torrents are in the WRONG, if it wasn’t for people trying to stop all this illegal downloading of music, movie and games the industries would all FALL and you would have no decent quality loot.

So instead of acting like bandits, have some respect! If this was my website Mr. X would be removed from admin status. Comparing someone to a nazi is disgraceful.

Adios!

The rest of you, follow me, let’d dig him up, have sex with his corpse and THEN piss on his grave.

Jack Valenti, Dead at 175 — proof only the good die young.