In 2003, Brianna Lahara was a twelve-year-old honors student who lived in a New York City Housing Authority apartment. In September of that year, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed 261 lawsuits against claimed “egregious” file-swapping computer users, including Lahara (Borland 1). Another one of these lawsuits was targeted toward Sarah Seabury Ward, a 66-year-old sculptor. Ward’s suit claimed that she had downloaded over two thousand songs, including “I’m a Thug” by rapper Trick Daddy using Kazaa, a then-popular file sharing program. However, Ward only owned a Macintosh computer, which will not run Kazaa (Gaither 2-8). Ward and Lahara were both targeted as electronic criminals in the RIAA’s crusade against music downloads. /* The RIAA wasted judicial tax money on improperly investigated claims etc? */