Recording Industry vs. The People

The RIAA says they don't want to make money from suing people for alleged copyright infringement. They do it to set examples. Yet they rejected a ruling by a judge because it is too low.

Recording Industry vs. The People:

"The San Antonio, Texas, case of Maverick Recording Co. v. Harper, in which the RIAA is pursuing a young lady who was 16 years of age at the time of the alleged infringement, will proceed to a jury trial on November 17th over the issue of whether she is entitled to the innocent infringement defense, which might reduce the statutory damages from $750 to $200.

The judge has previously ruled that the RIAA must proceed to trial on this issue unless it were willing to accept $200 per infringement, since there are many material factual issues that must be decided by the jury."