RIAA Trampling Consumers with Lawsuits

Music Industry Lawsuits are so bad that even the Judges feel bad for the defendants.

"I've never had a situation like this before, where there are powerful plaintiffs and powerful lawyers on one side and then a whole slew of ordinary folks on the other side." said U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner, who blocked movement on all the Massachusetts cases for months, "to make sure that no one, frankly, is being ground up." [AP: Music Piracy Lawsuits Wend Through Courts (reg req)]

I also don't understand why people are defaulting:

In Milwaukee, Suheidy Roman, 25, said she couldn't afford a lawyer when her ex-boyfriend, Gary Kilps, told record companies that both of them had downloaded music on Roman's computer. Although she denies the accusation, Roman ignored legal papers sent to her home. A U.S. judge earlier this year granted a default judgment against her and Kilps, ordering each to pay more than $4,500.

Industry lawyers said they have won an estimated 60 such default judgments nationwide.