RIAA vs Kylee Andersen, 10
p2pnet.net news:- “Plaintiffs claim Michelle admitted to downloading and uploading Plaintiffs’ copyrighted sound recordings … However, that is not what Michelle said and it is certainly not what she meant. Of course, with RIAA’s counsel physically beating on the table, slamming down post-it notes with question after question … and scaring Michelle out of her seat, sending her crying from the room, she did not know which way was up for dozens of questions.”
Michelle is Michelle Santangelo. She’s 20, now, but she was only 16 when the RIAA first decided she’d make a perfect subject for its sue ‘em all campaign, and in its latest ugly move, the RIAA wants to put a little girl literally half Michelle’s age through the same misery.
The intro is a small clip from a submission from Michelle’s lawyer, Jordan Glass, to New York judge Colleen McMahon.
The Santangelos have become the poster family for American victims of the Big 4 music cartel’s sue ‘em all marketing campaign under which Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG are using their RIAA to try to terrorise people into buying their music ‘product,’ and only theirs, and dominate music distribution online.
Michelle, her brother Bobby [now 16, but 12 when he was first singled out] and mother Patti are all massive illegal distributors of copyrighted music online and as such are criminals and thieves, assert RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) lawyers.
The allegations are complete rubbish, but they’re enough to have reduced Santangelo family life to a living hell where they don’t know what’s going to happen from one day to the next.
And now the RIAA wants to put little Kylee Andersen, who’s only 10, through the same terrible experience.
Acting for Big 4 companies Atlantic Recording, Priority Records, Capitol Records UMG Music and BMG Music, the RIAA wants to, “take the deposition of Kylee Andersen, and should be allowed to take the deposition in person,” it says.
The process is the same one which reduced Michelle to tears.
“To be deposed is to be questioned by a lawyer or lawyers under oath,” I say here. “And in cases such as the ones being brought by the RIAA, it’s guaranteed to be a fearsome experience – certainly not one any child of 10 should be exposed to except in the most extreme circumstances.
“But that’s what the RIAA has lined up for Kylee Andersen, who was only seven when the Big 4 first sicced their RIAA on her mother, Tanya, a disabled woman living on benefits.”
“I am very upset they want to depose my daughter,” her mother told me, going on:
I feel it will be a traumatizing situation for her and the thought makes me ill. They have already examined my hard drive and their own expert found nothing. I never did what they are accusing. There has been no one in my household that has done it. They have made a huge error.
This has been going on now for two and a half years and has turned my life upside down.
It continues to be a huge source of stress and chaos in my life. I certainly don’t feel like a free human being at this point because it just continues to go on and on–it doesn’t seem to matter what proof I give them or what questions I’ve answered for them.
Recently, I moved. Within one month of living in my new residence, I got word that these people were calling my apartment manager to verify I lived here and wanted to serve a subpoena. Come to find out, they were trying to serve my daughter.
This was extremely frightening to me, not to mention embarrassing and humiliating.
I am extremely worried about this situation with my daughter.
I can’t help but wonder why the RIAA feels it’s okay to continue going after a person who has not done what they are accusing. I constantly wonder why this is allowed to be happening? I wonder how the people who are planning on doing the deposition would feel if this was their child and someone was doing the same?
Tanya and Kylee are pictured above left with their dog, Tazz. Happier days.
Stay tuned.
Jon Newton – p2pnet
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Tired of being treated like a criminal? They depend on you, not the other way around. Don’t buy their ‘product’. Do bug your local politicians. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, faxes, IM, stop them in the street, blog. And if you’re into organizing, organize petitions, organize demonstrations and then turn up on your local political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance. Don’t just complain. Do something!
March 27th, 2007 at 10:16 am
Its easy.
If those RIAA lawyer cowards continue to molest tiny girls instead of the 31 year old US marine corps with the username “Gotenkito”:
Grab the mugshots of the RIAA lawyers from the HRO site (Thanks alter_fritz for pointing to that great tool) and visit them in Denver, Boulder and everywhere else where those bastards hide!
Their economic terrorism against society and the most vulnerable members of it must end…
NOW!
Boycott allone isn’t enough! Those big 4 bastards have to much money to survive even a massive boycott. Those Labels act like the criminal mob, it’s time that the public treat them as such!
Give them 3 weeks warning time… so they can back in their stuff in an orderly manner.
and if on May 1st are still suits pending against people that claim that they didn’t download anything then ACT!
Society doesn’t need those Labels nor those lawyers that work for them!
March 27th, 2007 at 10:31 am
what is the HRO site?
March 27th, 2007 at 10:33 am
http://www.hro.com/people/
http://www.hro.com/people/bio?id=153
March 27th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
The RIAA Plantiff’s that are insisting upon deposing 10 year old Kylee Anderson about events that occurred when she was 7 years old are ATLANTIC RECORDING, PRIORITY RECORDS, CAPITOL RECORDS, UMG RECORDINGS, AND BMG MUSIC. These are the puppet-masters. The RIAA and its legal lackeys are merely the puppets.
March 27th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
What they need is for someone with a baseball bat, mace, or gun to meet them at a store or other place on the street. Let that someone beat that lawyer punk to an inch of his life. The same thing should happen to the president of the RIAA and all of his henchmen.
I would be happy to see someone also show up at their extortion center with an automatic weapon to clean up a few attitudes there as well. It is apparent that these animals are not interested in justice. Tanya has even let them examine her computer, and there are other indications she’s innocent. No, this is not about justice. They have to know by now that she DIDN’T do what they thought she did. They know that they put her life through hell. They know what this is going to do to her daughter. The message that the RIAA is trying to reach the public with is, “Do what we say, or we will squash you and your family like flies.”
I know that if they did this to my family, there would be a few dead lawyers, some destroyed buildings, and anything else I could do. I know I would end up in jail or on death row for doing this, but it would be worth it.
Maybe it is time for RIAA victims to come together and fight these bastards with the same tactics they use against their victims.
This reason why big business and big government continually trample over people is because people do not have the balls to defend themselves. People are so afraid of the penalties that result from self defense. Yes the cost are great, but the reward may be a free country in which to live. Marvin Heemeyer is my personal hero. To me, he is as much a hero as George Washington, Patrick Henry, and many other who founded the U.S.A. He couldn’t fight “City Hall” in their courts or any other place, so he decided to destroy it instead. Here are a few websites and videos about this true American Hero.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZbG9i1oGPA
http://www.geocities.com/northstarzone/BULLDOZER.html
The only fault I find in this man is the fact that he did not publish plans on how he designed and built this tank. If there were a million men like him, we would be living in a free country.
Imagine what he would have done with the RIAA, its lawyers offices, and their courts if it were he that was victimized by them.
March 28th, 2007 at 5:48 am
There are MANY that share your sentiments.
May 17th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Word up. Word up. I feel you 100%