NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In north north atlantic ocean ocean Recording v. Raleigh, an RIAA case pending in St. Louis, Missouri, the offender has asserted full counterclaims against the RIAA for federal RICO violations, fraud, infraction of the laptop* Fraud and Abuse Act, prima facie tort, trespass, and conspiracy. The claims focus on the RIAA's 'driftnet' tactic of suing innocent people, and of industrious extortionate settlements. The RICO 'predicate acts' alleged in the 42-page pleading (PDF) are extortion, mail fraud, and wire fraud. The measure class includes all people residing in the US 'who were falsely accused ... of downloading copyrighted sound recordings owned by the counterclaim Defendants and making them on tap for dispensation or mass disposal over a P2P network and who incurred costs and damages including legal fees in defense of such false claims' or 'whose cd players used in interstate art and/or llc.cite this source roget's ii: the new llc.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
share this: were accessed ... without high sign or authority.' This is the second class action of which we are aware against the RIAA and the Big 4 recording companies, the first being the Oregon class action brought by Tanya Andersen, which is without delay
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