September 30, 2003

• RIAA withdraws $300m lawsuit against innocent pensioner

  
  

  By Andrew Orlowski

  
  

  Six record labels including Sony, BMG and Virgin said Sarah Ward was sharing 2,000 songs through the KaZaA P2P network exposing her, at $150,000 per offense, to $300,000,000 in penalties. But not only had she never downloaded a song, but as a a Macintosh user, she couldn't even run the KaZaA software, which only runs on Windows.

  
  

  "We reserve the right to refile the complaint against Mrs. Ward if and when circumstances warrant,"

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