1st RIAA trial: victim to defend herself !!!???

**Jared Moya** · December 7th, 2005, 08:43 AM

Laws were written to protect people, not to give huge, multi-billion dollar mega-corporations a way to terrorize them.

Will the law work equally well for an ordinary person with no heavyweight legal team and no unimaginably vast financial resources behind her?

Patricia Santangelo will find out as she represents herself in the first of the 17,000 or so Organized Music p2p file sharing cases to actually go to trial.

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**.:sp00ky:.** · December 7th, 2005, 08:56 AM

whats she going to say, God made her do it?

**VAMPYRE BLADE** · December 7th, 2005, 09:50 AM

At least she is willing to try, could set up a precedent if she wins.

**fleecy** · December 7th, 2005, 09:52 AM

be interesting to see how it all plays out.... she could come off as a sympathetic figure, one small person against a rich corporation

**shawners** · December 7th, 2005, 03:59 PM

It plays down to this, if she could afford a lawyer, she would afford the settlement.. It cost them alot of money to go through with it and in the end they cant do anything to make her pay for it. Especially in Texas. I may look up to see what her state law is.