RIAA Drops File-Sharing Lawsuit Against Wi-Fi Network User

Digital Media Wire

August 11, 2006

Los Angeles - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was recently compelled to drop one of its copyright infringement lawsuits against an alleged file-swapper, after the defendant argued that the RIAA could not definitively prove she was the person who illegally shared music files online.

Palm Desert, Calif. resident Tammie Marson and attorney Seyamack Kouretchian of Coast Law Group made two arguments in Virgin v. Marson: since she was a cheerleading teacher and had many teenagers in her house, it could have been one of them using file-sharing networks; more interestingly, Marson's computer was also connected to an unsecured Wi-Fi network, meaning any neighbors or someone else within range could have used the account to share music. "The best they could ever prove was somebody had used Tammie Marson's internet account to download the music or make it available," Kouretchian told Out-Law.com.

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