I like this result: Tanya Anderson not only won attorney's fees as compensation for the RIAA's wrongful suit against her, but she's getting a countersuit dropped so that she can continue with a wider ranging suit against the RIAA:

Judge Redden also upheld the magistrate's decision to dismiss her counterclaims without prejudice so that they could be heard as part of a malicious prosecution lawsuit filed by Andersen last June after the RIAA's case was dismissed, citing the "interests of judicial economy and comprehensive litigation."

Andersen's malicious prosecution lawsuit accuses the RIAA of invasion of privacy, deceptive business practices, libel, slander, and a host of other misdeeds, saying that the RIAA has "engaged in a coordinated enterprise to pursue a scheme of threatening and intimidating litigation in an attempt to maintain its music distribution monopoly." Her complaint contains some very disturbing allegations, including one that labels attempted to contact her then eight-year-old daughter under false pretenses without Andersen's permission.

If there's anyone who deserves to be sued into oblivion, it's the RIAA. The music labels could have adapted to the new digital system and remained profitable. Less so than with physical media, sure - but instead, they started to act like the mob. Let 'em die.

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