A man who was sued when his daughter was caught downloading music from the Australian KaZaa peer to peer web site has gone back to court in an effort to get his legal fees paid.
According to Radio Ink his problems started when Virgin Records Sony BMG, Arista, and UMG sued Cliff Thompson in 2004 for infringing their copyrights over KaZaa but later dropped the suit when it was discovered that it was his daughter not him that had been downloading the content.
It became clear after the suit was filed that Thompson's adult daughter was the one downloading music over KaZaa, and the writ filed with the US Supreme Court by Thompson's attorney, Ted Dalton Lee, says "the implications of this case extend to tens of thousands of innocent defendants across the country who have been sued for copyright infringement simply because they happen to pay for an Internet service account that was used by someone else to download music." RIAA labels have filed approximately 26,000 peer-to-peer infringement suits in the past four years.
