The Recording
Industry Association of America (RIAA) is suing a family for downloading
music illegally, but the family is denying the charge on the grounds that it
does not have internet access or a computer.
In a federal lawsuit the RIAA claimed that the Walls family from Rockmart, GA
had been downloading tracks from artists including
Bob Seger,
TLC
and Whitney
Houston.
"I don't understand this," James Walls told his local paper, the
Rockmart Journal. "How can they sue us when we don't even have a
computer?"
The family believes that the lawsuit may apply to the previous owner of the
house, as they have been there for less than a year.
This is not the first such occurrence of suspected mistaken identity. In
February another recipient of a writ claimed he did not
own a computer.
"Music and other copyrighted materials are some of America's most important,
cherished and visible exports," said the RIAA in a statement this month. "
However, pirated sales of our members' recordings topped $4.6bn in 2004."
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