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The charmless and heartless who make up the policy department of the RIAA have, yet again, proven to be even more charmless and even more heartless than our wildest imaginings.

They were pursuing Larry Scantlebury for some horrific level of damages that the labels believed he'd somehow stolen through file sharing networks. Larry died before he could cut them a cheque.

So, being all heart, the RIAA offered to give his family an extra 60 days to pay, to allow them time to grieve properly.

And, presumably, to sell his corneas so they can pass the earnings on to the record labels.

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