Suing the wrong person isn't a new thing for the RIAA. In 2003 they sued a 66-year-old sculptor with a Macintosh computer for supposedly sharing Trick Daddy's "I'm a Thug" with Kazaa (which at the time of that writing only ran on PC's with Windows). Last year they sued a corpse.

Now they're suing a home health aide who's never owned or used a computer. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) accuses Marie Lindor of using an "online distribution system" to "download, distribute, and/or make available for distribution" music belonging to the plaintiffs.

Attorney Morlan Ty Rogers has requested a summary judgement from the judge assigned to the case saying that Ms. Lindor "has never purchased, used, or even turned on, a computer, in her life."

Rogers and fellow attorney Ray Beckerman practice law at Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP, and they have been working with the Electronic Frontier Foundation to represent people who have been unjustly sued by the RIAA. On their blog, they say they "find these cases to be oppressive and unfair, as large law firms financed by the recording industry sue ordinary working people for thousands of dollars."

After suing a dead person and a woman who has never owned a computer, what can the RIAA do for an encore? Perhaps they will begin suing inanimate objects. My toaster looks like it could be up to no good...

---Nick

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