Posted on 03/29/2007 9:26:22 AM PDT by LibWhacker
That lawyer is a pretty good writer! Even I understood it.
Let's keep this one bookmarked... just in case :)
He seems to be an expert on defeating the RIAA...just look at his blog and all of his cases:
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/
Just what I was thinking.
Keep releasing crap and you won't sell any CD's, OK?
RIAA needs to be confronted, like the flying Imams and similar shakedown efforts, with a few class action law suits against them. If they can't prove their cases, they should be sued for malicious prosecutions.
Good article.
The RIAA and other media bullies have recently shut down a major portion of free internet radio broadcasting. These people need to be stopped. I work in a mostly steel building. I get zero radio reception. Listening to internet radio was a godsend. It's now gone on any station that I would like to listen to.
I believe malicious prosecution only applies to criminal cases. However, I believe there are sanctions available against lawyers who file frivilous lawsuits. Let the judges start fining the lawyers and referring them to the etics committee of the bar, and I think this would quickly disappear.
Or even better, the ETHICS committee! :-)
Yep...
The RIAA: Modern-day organized crime.
I'm waiting for the day that someone rams an anti-trust lawsuit up the dresses of those RIAA pansies.
ping
I wish they came after me so I could shove a similar response up their ***, but first I would have to download some of that crappy music they distribute.
Usually people are happy just to have the case dropped. Few fight the RIAA in dropping the case without prejudice, which means the RIAA can bring suit again. The one who did, and won fees, is having her victory appealed by the RIAA, which is actually using the fact that she wouldn't let them just drop it against her.
What is "Metallica"?
...could be the heavy-metal band Metallica
The judge has the power to fine the lawyer on the spot - see this thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1808792/posts
Metallica started the anti-file-sharing movement with their campaign against Napster.
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