RIAA again in RICO claim
p2pnet.net News:- It can only be a matter of time before Sharman Networks’ Kazaa p2p application shows up as the star in a class action.
Because it seems to be almost always front and centre in every Big Four Organized Music cartel sue ‘em all case.
The latest to come to light on Recording Industry vs The People involves Thomas J. Korb who is, says Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA, yet another of those quite literally millions of criminals who are “devastating” the hugely wealthy record labels by sharing digital music files online.
The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) claims Kolb, from South Carolina, distributed copyrighted music, using Kazaa.
But he’s never had a Kazaa account, states his lawyer, Jason Scott Luck of the Seibels Law Firm in Charleston.
Sharman, based in Australia, recently paid a $115 settlement fee after The Big Four had claimed it facilitated file sharing. And Kolb joins a growing number of other recent defendants who say the ’settlement’ has in effect also settled for RIAA claims against the ‘trade’ organization’s victims, all of them very ordinary men, women and children, and all of them file sharing “thieves,” according to the Big Four.
He also says, like a growing number of other recent defendants, the $750-per-song claimed by the RIAA is unconstitutional; and, like a growing number of other recent defendants, that the so-called Settlement Support Center is extorting money from innocent computer users “through a pattern of oppressive, unfair, and immoral litigation”.
And as Oregon mother Tanya Andersen says in her as yet unresolved charge, the Big Four have violated the RICO (Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization) Act, states Kolb.
On top of that, his long list of counter-claims assert that using “unfairly, unlawfully, and immorally” acquired information, “the Plaintiffs and their co-conspirators have filed lawsuits across the nation against … handicapped persons, children, persons who do not own computers, deceased persons, and most recently, an elderly survivor of hurricane Rita.”
Stay tuned. The critical mass point has almost been reached.
Also See:
Recording Industry vs The People – New Contested Case With Counterclaims in Charleston, South Carolina, December 6, 2006
unconstitutional – Trouble looms for RIAA, November 10, 2006
have violated – RIAA RICO case hearing, January 30, 2006
hurricane Rita – Hurricane Rita survivor RIAA victim, November 29, 2006
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December 7th, 2006 at 10:29 am
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