Brianna LaHara was a 12-year old girl (now 14) from New York who was sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on September 8, 2003 for allegedly distributing [uploading] music to the Internet which led to massive public outcry against the RIAA's heavy-handed tactics. State nickname: The Empire State Official languages None. ... The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade group representing the U.S. recording industry. ... September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Amidst bad publicity the RIAA agreed to settle for $2,000.
The P2Ptrade group P2P United agreed to reimburse Brianna and her mother. A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively few servers. ... An industry trade group is generally a public relations organization funded, founded and formed by corporations that operate in a specific industry. ...
Grokster CEO Wayne Rosso and lifestyle website Hypothermia.us also offered to help Brianna by paying her settlement while online music retailer MusicRebellion.com gave Brianna $2,000 of free music downloads. Grokster Ltd. ...
BriannaLaHara said she was frightened to learn she was among the hundreds of people sued yesterday by giant music companies in federal courts around the country.
Brianna was among 261 people sued for copying thousands of songs via popular Internet file-sharing software — and thousands more suits could be on the way.
Brianna and the others sued yesterday under federal copyright law could face penalties of up to $150,000 per song, but the RIAA has already settled some cases for as little as $3,000.
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