sourceA woman who was sued by the Recording Industry of America for file-sharing has countersued the outfit for hacking.
Tanya Andersen, a 41-year old disabled single mother living in Oregon, has countersued the RIAA for Oregon RICO violations, fraud, invasion of privacy, abuse of process, electronic trespass, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, negligent misrepresentation. She is claiming hurt feelings and "outrage", and deceptive business practices.
According to court documents here, Anderson said the record industry has been abusing the law courts and waged a public relations and public threat campaign targeting file sharing.
She claims that the RIAA hired an outfit called MediaSentry to invade private home computers and collect personal information. Based on private information allegedly extracted from these personal home computers, the record companies have reportedly filed lawsuits against more than 13,500 anonymous "John Does".
RIAA counter-sued for hacking
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RIAA counter-sued for hacking
I suspect it's not that easy to get a warrant to invade privacy without consent.... I think you may well need a reasonable suspicion for that... and a judge who values the record industry revenues higher than the individuals privacy.
Anyway.... over here a company not so very different from the 'media sentry' named in the article sued national ISP's to try and force them to release personal details of account holders that belong to certain IP's, which they have decided are massive file sharing IP's.
Judge ruled against them and ISP's do not have to give up those details
The ISP's refused because their own TOS says they will not reveal your personal information to any third parties (law enforcement excluded)
meaning if they do you can cancel your contract and sue them in turn again
It's a messed up world!
Anyway.... over here a company not so very different from the 'media sentry' named in the article sued national ISP's to try and force them to release personal details of account holders that belong to certain IP's, which they have decided are massive file sharing IP's.
Judge ruled against them and ISP's do not have to give up those details
The ISP's refused because their own TOS says they will not reveal your personal information to any third parties (law enforcement excluded)
meaning if they do you can cancel your contract and sue them in turn again It's a messed up world!
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