Filesharing lawsuits can go one of two ways. Mostly, they end up settled out of court. If settled out of court, they cost an average person between $3750 and $7500, possibly bankrupting them, increasing their credit card debt or reducing their child's chances of hitting their mid-twenties with a college degree in their pocket.

Others go to court, and lately, many of those ask early on for the judge to grant a motion for summary judgement. Exactly that has happened in a newly surfacing Brooklyn, NY case, that of Electra Records Vs. Schwartz.

Ray Beckerman writes, "A disabled mother, who has never engaged in file sharing or downloading, has been sued in Brooklyn, in Elektra v. Schwartz. She has interposed a counterclaim for attorneys fees, and has asked the Court for a premotion conference, or waiver of such a conference, so that she can proceed with a motion for summary judgment:"

We'll be keeping Electra vs. Schwartz on our radar along with the other cases we regularly follow.

[Thanks Ray!]