Lawyers plan class-action to reclaim "$100M+" RIAA "stole"
Found on Ars Technica on Tuesday, 09 June 2009
Lawyers in this year's two highest-profile file-sharing cases have joined forces, and they plan to file a class-action lawsuit against the recording industry later this summer to claw back the "$100+ million" that the RIAA "stole."
Not content simply to defend Jammie Thomas-Rasset in her high-profile retrial next week in Minnesota, lawyer Kiwi Camara is joining forces with Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson to file a class-action lawsuit against the recording industry later this summer.
Perhaps the RIAA had good reason not to send those settlement letters to Harvard for so long.
Now that one will be really interesting. Hopefully Nesson and Camara can finally force the industry to face that the world has changed and they need to adapt if they want to survive. With a little bit more luck, RIAA et al will even go down and vanish if artists figure out that they can make more money by taking matters into their own hands and refuse to deal with strangling contracts.