p2pnet news | P2P:- They’re writing about Tanya Andersen in Russia.

She’s the indomitable Oregon mother who’s giving Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music, Sony BMG and their RIAA the painful lesson their days of bullying people, safe in the knowledge they can get away with it because the media will carry only their lies and misrepresentations, are over.

The Big 4 labels and the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) figured they had Andersen correctly sized up as someone who’d cower under their extortion and non-stop public humiliation.

They were wrong.

Not only didn’t she quietly submit to RIAA terror tactics, she and her lawyers, Lory Lybeck and Ben Justus, showed the multi-billion-dollar corporate labels just what free people can do.

“RIAA nemisis Tanya Andersen fought Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA to a standstill, forcing it to drop its spurious file sharing case against her, and she’s chalked up another victory,” p2pnet said, going an Oregon court had awarded her close to $108,000 in fees and costs.

“Her award, the highest ever, also tells lawyers representing RIAA victims they’ll be able to proceed with counterclaims bolstered by the knowledge they’ll be paid their work,” we said.

Now, Misha Verbitsky and habrahabr have picked the story up.

We can’t read Russian, but we’re pretty sure their stories substantially repeat others which are now electronically bouncing around the globe, showing Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US) they’re no longer calling the shots.

“Tanya Anderson, the P2P defendant that was accused by the record industry of stealing music but fought the charges and eventually won has just had another victory, having a significant amount of her substantial fees paid for by the bully record industry,” says Afterdawn from Finland.

From Britain, “Tanya Andersen, a single mother and unlikely file-sharers’ champion for hoisting the RIAA with its own petard, has scored another victory,” says The Register.

Conclusively putting things into perspective, “Single mother Tanya Andersen seems to have the RIAA tiger by the tail, and she’s biting down hard,” says Christina on SoloMother.

And now Jammie Thomas, another single mum used by multi-billion-dollar Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG to “prove” no one could beat them, also looks like sending them whimpering away with their tails between their legs.

The labels issued something like 40,000 subpoenas to men, women and even children across America.

They’d been able to use the lamescream media to imply the documents amounted to court cases and successful prosecutions.

However, of these thousands of innocent people only one, Jammie Thomas, actually appeared in civil court before a jury.

She was found guilty of copyright infringement and ordered to pay the Big 4 close to a quarter of the million dollars damages.

However, Michael Davis, who heard the case, has now admitted he was probably wrong.

Couching his in his misjudgement as a “manifest error of law,” he’s now considering a retrial.

Stay tuned. We predict increasing numbers of Big 4 travesties and screw-ups will come to light.

Jon Newton - p2pnet

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