RIAA tries to bury Dutch finding
p2pnet.net News:- Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, the members of the Big 4 Organized Music cartel, are seriously alarmed because New York judge Robert L. Levy might see a Dutch court’s written decision condemning material submitted by MediaSentry, an online scalp hunter hired by the RIAA to come up with ‘proof’ of file sharing on the part of RIAA victims.
So the Big 4 instructed their RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) to get an English-language transcript stricken from the UMG v Lindor hearing.
Marie Lindor is a New York mother who works as a home health aide and freely admits she knows nothing about computers.
The RIAA, though, says she illegally distributed copyrighted music online and her lawyer, Ray Beckerman, is challenging so-called evidence dredged up by MediaSentry, citing the Dutch documents as an indication that work by the company’s Tom Mizzone may have been somewhat less than exact or reliable.
“Surprisingly, the RIAA attached – as an exhibit to its ‘motion’ – a portion of a post from this blog,” says Beckerman on his Recording Industry vs The People.
He’s referring to RIAA Holme Robert & Owen lawyer Richard Gabriel’s (right) submission of a post headlined, Marie Lindor Submits Papers from Netherlands courts Showing Mediat Sentry’s Tom Mizzone’s Investigations are Unreliable.
According to Gabriel in a court document, it has nothing to do with the Lindor case and is no more than a way for Beckerman to create content for Recording Industry vs The People and to “unfairly prejudice this Court against plaintiff’s witnesses,” the attachment being, presumably, Gabriel’s ‘proof’.
However, in response, Beckerman passes by Gabriel’s personal attack and says:
As your honor knows, we submitted these authorities and the declaration of the independent experts simply to illustrate the importance of a thorough and searching deposition and crossexamination of Mr. Mizzone. Certainly the fact that Mr. Mizzone`s ’science’ has been repudiated by appeals courts in Canada and the Netherlands, and the reasons why it was repudiated, are germane to your honor’s inquiry, and far more helpful than Mr. Gabriel’s postargument submission of a 4-year-old published case which, to the extent it was relevant at all, contradicted, rather than supported, plaintiffs’ motion.
Stay tuned.
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Also See:
condemning material – Utrecht MediaSentry decision, December 18, 2005
online scalp hunter – RIAA: trying it on with MediaSentry, December 17, 2005
home health aide – RIAA victim wants case dismissed, Ocrtober 25, 2006
Recording Industry vs The People – RIAA Moves to Strike Copies of Netherlands Decision & Expert Testimony in UMG v. Lindor, December 19, 2005
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December 20th, 2006 at 8:41 pm
the “L” is only for “RIAA Richard”
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Alter_Fritz
December 20th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
Mediasentry was lambasted when the music monopolies tried suing people in Canada. The judge threw it out because Mediasentry evidence was grossly inconclusive and sloppy. As it should have been. Mediasentry is a fucking joke of an operation, no wonder they have been pointing fingers at people not even involved in P2P activity in the states. Perhaps a lawsuit against Mediasentry by people who have been fingered by them would be in order……
December 21st, 2006 at 11:08 am
“American judges too retarded usually to read foreign cases”
Actually, sometimes they are too retarded to read their own cases.The proof is here:
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