Well, I know we post these a lot, but this one kind of gets the blood pressure going. We always wonder what happens if someone fights a settlement from these copyright reps. Now we can see at least what happens if you can't pay the settlement figure and have to go to court. In this case, the poor guy is broke and can't pay. So what does the MPAA do? The Motion Picture Association of America filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against 67 year old Fred Lawrence of Racine, Wisconsin for "up to" $600,000 dollars.

"First of all, like I say, I guess I'd have to plead being naive about the whole thing," he said. "I personally didn't do it, and I wouldn't do it. But I don't think it was anything but an innocent mistake my grandson made." Lawrence said his grandson, who was then 12, downloaded "The Incredibles," "I, Robot," "The Grudge," and "The Forgotten" in December, without knowing it was illegal to do so. The Racine man said his grandson downloaded the movies out of curiosity, and deleted the computer files immediately. The family already owned three of the four titles on DVD, he said. "I can see where they wouldn't want this to happen, but when you get up around $4,000 ... I don't have that kind of money," Lawrence said. "I never was and never will be a wealthy person."

Speaking of I,Robot, Kori Bernards, vice-president of corporate communications for the MPAA, (I guess the president was "busy") let it be known that: "The movie industry wants people to understand the consequences of Internet piracy." Ms. Bernards went on to say that the problem is, since the movies were downloaded upon iMesh, they were then available for illegal distribution to thousands of scofflaws via the iMesh Network.  

Source: Yahoo!