News from the Music Industry

Last February, Andersen got a letter from a Los Angeles law firm informing her she was being sued for copyright infringement. MediaSentry, an investigator retained by the recording industry, had allegedly caught her collecting gangsta rap on her hard drive late one night using peer-to-peer file sharing software. Andersen’s attorney, Lory R. Lybeck, says Andersen doesn’t know how to use such software–indeed, that she doesn’t even like gangsta rap.According to Lybeck, when Andersen tried to protest her innocence and offered up her computer for forensic analysis, she was told that the suit had to continue or others might be deterred from settling.