"Woman to record industry: Stop spying":http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iELZN2PQy2ETQkJreUbz_j98WM1gD8VDKJ780
By WILLIAM McCALL, Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. - A woman who claims the recording industry's anti-music piracy campaign threatens and intimidates innocent people has filed a new complaint accusing record companies of racketeering, fraud and illegal spying.
Tanya Andersen originally sued the Recording Industry Association of America after RIAA representatives threatened to interrogate her young daughter if she didn't pay thousands of dollars for music she downloaded from somebody else.
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Sigh...
When will this insanity end? Going after children and their parents? When the money is extorted...err...uhhh..."collected" - does the RIAA give the money to the artists and songwriters who a had a song downloaded in an improper manner? That's also a question that has not been answered in the media.