I'm sorry, but I have a hard time feeling sorry for the 12-year-old who got sued by the RIAA. If she was stealing cars, would everyone say " aw, she's only 12, let her go?" No, she'd be in juvie. This wasn't some kid who downloaded one song once, and didn't know what was going on. She was sharing 1,000 songs on her computer.

It also drives me nuts that people are saying she should get off because her family is poor. It's not like she stole a loaf of bread to feed her starving baby sister. If they're really that poor, I'm shocked that they can afford to pay for the computer, the ISP service and the $30 or whatever they had paid for Kazaa. Perhaps they should use that money to buy the girl a book on ethics instead.

This is similar to the rationale people use to justify the stealing in the first place "It's ok to steal, if it comes from rich people." No it's not. Stealing is wrong, regardless of who you steal from.