Cash Money for Brianna

warhol-dollar-sign.jpgRIAA's 12 year old enemy number one, Brianna Harris, has been showered with donations from a number of websites and organizations, as the Post and Daily News report. Gothamist contributed to Emmett's collection plate - maybe some money should be sent to another victim of RIAA's lawsuit, 71 year-old Texan Durwood Pickle. His visiting grandkids were the ones who illegally downloaded the music. These kids today!

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y'all I hate to say it but Brianna Harris will not learn her lesson if others pony up and pay her debts... if anything, she may learn wow break the law and look what happens...

CNET News reported:
"P2P United, a peer-to-peer industry trade group that includes Grokster, StreamCast Networks, Limewire and other file-trading software companies, said Wednesday it had offered to reimburse Brianna Lahara and her mother's payment to the Recording Industry Association of America ...

"We do not condone copyright infringement, but someone has to draw the line to call attention to a system that permits multinational corporations with phenomenal financial and political resources to strong-arm 12-year-olds and their families in public housing the way this sorry episode dramatizes," said Adam Eisgrau, the executive director of P2P United."

http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5074227.html

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