RIAA sues wheelchair mother
p2pnet.net News:- In a new infamy, the Big Four Organized Music cartel’s RIAA is suing a disabled, wheelchair-bound New York mother who’s never downloaded a song in her life and who until the RIAA appeared, didn’t know what file sharing was.
The RIAA (Recording Industry Assocation of America) accuses Rae Schwartz of distributing music online.
However, her lawyer, Ray Beckerman, is making a counterclaim for attorneys’ fees and asking the Court for a pre-motion conference, or waiver of such a conference, so she can proceed ask for summary judgment.
In a court document, Beckerman states:
The plaintiffs have engaged in a conspiracy to defraud the Courts of the United States, by bringing lawsuits against persons who are not known to have infringed copyrights, and to make false and unsupported allegations that the defendants have infringed copyrights; by utilizing a corporation known as Settlement Support Center LLC to make extortionate threats of criminal action and of defaming defendants’ names and credit; by conducting ex parte ‘John Doe’ lawsuits which they have no intention of pursuing, but in which they interact with Judges, Magistrates, and other officials on a daily basis, without notice or opportunity to be heard being offered to defendants; by bringing the ‘John Doe’ lawsuits in jurisdictions far removed from the domiciles of the ‘John Does’ so that they have no meaningful opportunity to be heard or to retain counsel of their own choosing; by sending out press releases for the purpose of humiliating, embarrassing, and extorting; and by other unconscionable conduct.
Stay tuned.
Also See:
making a counterclaim – New Contested Case in Brooklyn, Elektra v. Schwartz, October 31, 2006
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November 1st, 2006 at 2:56 pm
Why is the recording industry going after people who can’t even use a computer, let alone own one? Do they find great pleasure in this? Does it make them feel good on the inside knowing that they’re bullying someone who doesn’t have any knowledge, period?
November 1st, 2006 at 3:17 pm
Pure and simple.
The Utility companies in the US use similar tactics when
they don’t get THEIR way.
They threaten to destroy lives and layoff thousands if
their financial demands aren’t acceded to.
The Record companies ( throught their front group )
will continue to use the courts, in the same way thugs used
to use lead pipes and baseball bats, to force people to
‘comply’ with their demands. Guilt or innoncence is NOT the issue,
it’s having the financial means to defend yourself, prove your
innoncence, as it were, a direct contradiction of what the law
is ’supposed’ to be … Inooncent until proven guilty.
Now it’s Guilty unless wealthy.
Since the same companies that own television and radio have
a stake in this, only ’select’ information reaches the public, creating
another maxim ….
Wealth creates Truth.
The only way to hurt them back, since you can’t make them
feel guilty, since they have no feelings, is to take from them
their wealth.
Don’t buy their CD’s .. TV’s etc..
Don’t buy ANYTHING from these companies.
Keep your money in your pocket, don’t put it in theirs.
November 1st, 2006 at 9:17 pm
One thing is for sure, they are winning no customers with their law suits. If anything folks are turning away from the pay-for sites with DRMed to the gills products.
Lately in the news is that Utube and MySpace have knuckled under to the cartels and you can expect that folks will leave there for other places where they are not so restricted. Utube and MySpace have been put into the restricted area by such a move and you can be sure it will again win no customers by the move.
It appears that the cartels in their efforts to leave no stone unturned to gain every last cent are instead alienating themselves from their customer base. This will in the end ensure the demise of the cartels as they are now known.
Since they started the sue’em all, I’ve been on boycott. I’ve not bought a single song, album, movie (nor rented one), gone to a theater, nor paided for a subscription to premium channels since the day each have picked up the banner. I will continue to do so till my death if necessary but support them in this effort I will not do.
Such cases as demonstrated here only underline the reason I feel this way.
November 1st, 2006 at 10:57 pm
Yep, I call it the Civil recovery Fraud. Looks like the Civil Recovery for theft loss but with out any evidence to indicate the person they site did anything. A television company did the same to me. What is unique, is these big companies drive the individual into a confidential settlement and require that they cannot report any crimes which may have occurred. Specifically, the crime of fraud. The person cannot file a complaint or ask that anyone be charged with a crime. If they brake the setttlement agreement by reporting the crime, then they are sued again. American’s are being denied the right to report a crime in a secret settlement. You cannot even reporty the attorney to the Bar. The initial court Summons and Complaint are usually made up but yet sworn to under oath as the truth. This because the complaint is hypothetical. Perjury exists here as well but in the end, you cannot report it because of private confidental agreement they are forced into. These crimes as well will not be investigated by the Justice system even if you did report them.