Nun geht es also los: Bislang wurden alle Streifälle der RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) außergerichtlich entschieden. Zu groß war die Angst bei den Beklagten vor horrenden Prozesskosten.
Eine alleinstehende Mutter von fünf Kindern will der mächtigen Organisation nun aber die Stirn bieten, da sie sich zu Unrecht von der RIAA verdächtigt fühlt.
Der erster Termin von Frau Santangelo vor Gericht hat echten Unterhaltungswert, da der Richter keinen Hehl daraus macht, dass er mit der Mutter sympathisiert. Ein Auszug aus dem Protokoll:
MS. SANTANGELO: I realized when I looked at this that the downloads, I guess they call it Exhibit B, the screen name that this Kazaa was under doesn’t belong to anyone in my family. And that’s most likely why I was never notified by AOL or any of my — the companies that I have online service with that my children had downloaded anything. Apparently, it belongs to a friend of my son, who is now 14.
THE COURT: I see.
MS. SANTANGELO: And I didn’t know about it. And I really don’t know where to go from here. And so I’m a little dumbfounded by the whole thing.
THE COURT: Yes, I know. I keep saying I live in — although I’ve read the riot act to my own kids a hundred times –
MS. SANTANGELO: Oh, yeah, now I have.
THE COURT: — I live in perpetual fear that something I don’t know my kids are doing is going to come back and bite me in the butt. And the difference between you and me, Ms. Santangelo, if it happens to me, it will be in the headlines of the New York Post.
MS. SANTANGELO: That’s true.
THE COURT: Right.
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