MPAA Offers Deal in Download Lawsuit

By Jimmy Daniels
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

An update to yesterdays story about a 67 Year Old Sued by MPAA for iMesh Downloads, the MPAA has offered Mr. Lawrence a “deal”, they called him and said if he paid them the $4000 they originally asked for, they would drop the lawsuit. They even stated that he could make payments over a year to 18 months.

An attorney for the Motion Picture Association of America called Lawrence late Wednesday, telling him the lawsuit would be dropped if he paid $4,000, Lawrence said.

The deal is about the same one offered Lawrence in March, which he ignored, except it allows him to pay in installments.

“I don’t want to sound like a smart aleck, but $4,000 might as well be a $1 million,” Lawrence said. “We are budgeted. We have a fixed income. I don’t have even an extra $250 a month.”

Lawrence, a former employee of Snap-on Inc. and seasonal worker for the City of Racine, said he is still trying to find an attorney to defend him in the suit.

Lawrence said he didn’t even know what file sharing was. Source: Yahoo

We Say: Sounds like they are getting desperate, one would think there would be lawyers ready to jump all over this, if just to get their names in the papers.