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“Finally: The RIAA Gets Sued”

Since 2003, the Recording Industry Association of America has initiated nearly 15,000 lawsuits against individuals it claims have obtained or distributed its members’ copyrighted material illegally. Now one of those individuals, Tanya Andersen of Oregon, a single mother of an eight-year-old girl, has filed a countersuit claiming that the RIAA, in the pursuit of its public campaign against digital file-sharing, has violated multiple points of the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, according to a post by attorney Ray Beckerman on the legal page at Digital Music News. Included in Ms. Andersen’s suit are allegations of “fraud, invasion of privacy, abuse of process, electronic trespass, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, negligent misrepresentation, the tort of ‘outrage,’ and deceptive business practices.”