Kids swap files, parents sued

The reaction of this mom and dad - Sandy and Richard Nauman of Des Moines, Iowa - to an RIAA lawsuit is far from unusual, we suspect. Sandy said she and her husband had no idea how to download music from the Internet. But, according to the Associated Press, their 15- and 18-year-old kids certainly do. The Naumans are among "a group of
90 named defendants from across the country sued [in federal court] late last month in the latest round of [some 3,500] lawsuits" the RIAA has filed against what it calls music pirates. The settlement could cost the Naumans "up to $4,000," the AP reports. the RIAA says they have downloaded more than 1,000 songs on free file-sharing services (such as eDonkey, Kazaa, or BitTorrent).