Portland woman to sue record industry for spying
Tanya Andersen, a Portland, Oregon resident, is attempting to sue the recording industry for illegal spying.
She previously sued the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) when executives threatened to interrogate her then eight-year-old young daughter if she didn’t make a settlement of thousands of dollars for downloading shared music files.
On March 14, 2008, Andersen filed her complaint to the U.S. District Court in Portland. She is seeking national class action status on behalf of others who were also victimized by the record industry anti-piracy drive and MediaSentry, a company employed to spy on piracy culprits.
According to the lawsuit, MediaSentry was charged with hiring “unlicensed, unregistered and uncertified private investigators” who “illegally entered the hard drives of tens of thousands of private American citizens” — which violated privacy laws in virtually every state in the US.
This unlawful gain of private information was reportedly used to file sham lawsuits as an intimidation tactic that fuels the anti-piracy campaign by record companies.
Andersen’s lawyer says these charges forces the industry to reveal the ways in which they have been spying on consumers.
A spokesman from the record industry, Jonathan Lamy points out that this new lawsuit is just a repeat of her previous one and aims to wrap up this case as soon as possible.
Andersen’s complaint mirrors the one filed by University of Oregon to protect their students’ privacy when the RIAA accused them of music piracy.
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