p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- While the RIAA’s most famous victim, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, gets ready to defend herself against spurious file sharing charges for the second time, two lawyers generations apart are teaming up to take on the corporate record industry.

Jammie’s new lawyer, K.A.D. ‘Kiwi’ Camara, and Harvard professor Charles Nesson who, with his crew of law students is defending Joel Tenenbaum, are to jointly file a class-action lawsuit against Big Music.

Making financial payoffs

Tanya Andersen and her lawyer, Lory Lybeck, were the first to turn the tables on Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, saying the RIAA and its personal Private Eye, MediaSentry, since fired by the RIAA, worked together to frighten their victims into making financial payoffs, said p2pnet recently.

“They ’secretly met and conspired’ to develop a ‘litigation enterprise’ with the ultimate goal of preserving the major record companies` control over the music business, she said, asking for class action status in which she`s seeking at least $5 million in compensation for herself and other victims.”

“I`m still fighting with the RIAA, Tanya told p2pnet recently, going on »»»

This still isn`t over.  I did win the lawsuit the RIAA had against me; however, I have the class action case against them.  It`s still in discovery at this time.

And the RIAA is using the same dirty tactics that are now hallmarks of its sue `em all campaign.

So far, they`ve subpoened records from my medical providers, past employers, government records, and many others, says Tanya, adding: It feels like more humiliation and invasion of privacy.

Most recently, I`ve learned that they are calling me in for yet another deposition. The last deposition was close to six hours long and extremely stressful. So, here we go again.

But, Tanya promises, I won`t give up.

It`s just too important.

‘Nesson/Camara tag team’

Now Camara and Nesson want to, “force the industry to pay back the alleged ‘$100+ million’ it has collected over the last few years,” says Ars Technica, going on:

“The idea behind the suit is that the RIAA has illegally threatened people, using void copyright registrations, and scared them into paying an average of $3,000 or $4,000 apiece to fend off the threat of federal litigation.

“If all of these arguments weren’t enough, the Nesson/Camara tag team have a couple more eyepoppers to make: P2P file-sharing of copyrighted material is fair use, and huge statutory damage awards against noncommercial users are unconstitutional.”

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most famous victim – Jammie Thomas-Rasset: file sharing thief, June 10, 2009
Joel Tenenbaum – p2pnet talks to RIAA victim Joel Tenenbaum, December 23, 2009
fired by the RIAA – MediaSentry and RIAA: government probe?, April 5, 2009
still fighting – RIAA: still harassing Tanya Andersen, February 13, 2009
Ars Technica – Lawyers plan class-action to reclaim “$100M+” RIAA “stole”, June 10, 2009