On June 15, District Judge Nancy Gertner of the U.S. Court for the District of Massachusetts issued electronic orders dismissing defendant Joel Tenenbaum’s counterclaims against all the plaintiffs and denying his bid to add the RIAA as a party to the counterclaims. Capital Records Inc. v. Alaujan, No. 1:03-cv-11661 (D. Mass.).
Gertner rejected Tenenbaum’s argument that the record industry’s lawsuits to stop parties downloading and distributing copyrighted works is an “abuse of process” simply because the campaign has spawned a large number of cases against young people who cannot afford attorneys.
