Spotted in Wired Top Stories:

The Recording Industry Association of America is calling a Texas woman "vexatious" for wanting to defend herself at trial against a file sharing charge instead of settling for $7,400. The woman is now a 22-year-old university student, and the allegations concern her use of a file sharing program when she was allegedly between 14 and 16 years old.

You know, in almost any context other than "IP protection", the RIAA and MPAA would be looked at as criminal mobs engaged in extortion, and the RICO laws would be used against them.

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