RIAA are very really going at it with its scaring tactics when trying to “clean up” among the illegal downloaders in the USA and we have at several occassions reported about the questionable means it’s used when trying to fight piracy. Now RIAA has once again managed to go too far, at least morally. It has lead a suit against from Warner Bros. against Larry Scantlebury about illegal downloads of music from the Internet. The lawsuit was supposedly close to a settlement and has up until this point been rather unknown. All this changed when Larry Scantlebury died before the suit was closed. You might think this is a perfectly good reason to close the case, but apparently RIAA disagrees.
RIAA has namely, in consideration of Mr. Scantlebury’s family, applied to postpone the case for 60 days to give the family time to mourne the deceased. After these 60 days the case will continue and instead the accused will be Scantlebury’s children. What RIAA is thinking when they continue to do, what most people consider, not so much thought through decisions is hard to say. But it will hardly put the already, by many, disliked organisation in a better position.
