Warner Music sues paralyzed stroke victim

These people need to hire someone with some common sense and a good PR firm. Or to put it more succinctly: ARE THEY NUTS?
The scare tactics used by the RiAA and their members are really backfiring into a public relations nightmare.I personally feel so revolted by all this that I am refraining from buying anything from any of these companies. (see also: http://www-tech.mit.edu/V126/N15/RIAA1506.html)

clipped from www.boingboing.net Warner Music sues paralyzed stroke victim Warner Music is suing a retired railroad man in Florida whose left side has been paralyzed by a stroke and whose sole source of income is his disability check. Although the defendant John Paladuk, an employee of C&N Railroad for 36 years, was living in Florida at the time of the alleged copyright suit, and had notified the RIAA that he had not engaged in any copyright infringement, and despite that the fact that Mr. Paladuk suffered a stroke last year which resulted in complete paralysis of his entire left side and severely impaired speech, rendering him disabled, and despite the fact that his disability check is his sole source of income, the RIAA commenced suit against him on February 27, 2007. posted by Cory Doctorow at 06:46:23 PM permalink | Other blogs' comments Link