RIAA dredges up old/new ‘expert’
p2pnet.net News:- Demanding access to RIAA victims’ computers is now routine, but the Big 4 Organized Music cartel members have, “escalated their demands to include, ‘production of ‘[a]ny and all computers and/or music listening devices including iPods and MP3 players’,” p2pnet posted, writing about the latest Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG attack on the Lindor family in New York.
Now they’ve added a ‘doctor’ with a 26-page CV to their arsenal as they attempt to both gain control of online distribution and terrorize their customers around the world into buying Big 4 product and only Big 4 product.
New York home health aide Marie Lindor is helping to ruin the multi-billion-dollar corporate music industry, they profess through their RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). She’s distributing Big 4 ‘product’ online, they say, even though she’s a complete computer illiterate.
“Having wrung the cloth dry with Lindor herself,” the RIAA came up with, “a refinement to another old ploy – trying to access victims’ hard drives, a trick they’d tried on Lindor,” p2pnet said, going on, “It’s SOP to initially target parents such as Lindor, who’s expertise in the areas of computing and computers is zero, knowing full well the cases have absolutely no merit.”
Another New York mother, Patti Santangelo knows all about that. Warner, et al, tried, and failed, to target her as a “massive online distributor”. They knew it would never swing, but part of the exercise was to enable them to generate spurious mainstream media reports, as well as to force her into ’settling’ out of court.
Patti flatly refused and just before Christmas, the RIAA gave up on her, turning on two of her children, who were the real targets.
Marie Lindor’s son, Woody, is in the same boat and somehow, some way, the RIAA must prove he’s an online distributor of copyrighted music.
Doug Jacobson is the doctor the RIAA hired, “in further support of its motion to compel Ms. Lindor’s son to turn over his personal computer and listening devices in UMG v. Lindor,” says Recording Industry vs The People.
The implication is that Jacobson is an impartial, independent consultant. But his 26-page CV notwithstanding, he can hardly be said to be that. In fact, his company and Audible Magic, an anti-p2p firm with a long history with the RIAA, are partners.
Jacobson runs Palisade Systems, a company which, like others, is trying to use the Big 4’s sue ‘em all terror campaign against innocent men, women and children to swell its bank balance, and which also uses the RIAA attack on schools to similarly enrich itself with its PacketHound application,outlined in the RIAA – Educause Request for Information, Palisade Systems, Inc, here.
He also gave testimony for a 2003 US Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing when he supported the RIAA’s specious ‘p2p file sharing is responsible for Net pornography’ stand.
“Companies like Palisade Systems in conjunction with research universities like Iowa State University will continue to develop new technologies to combat the evolution of peer-to-peer networks,” he declared.
Palisade is, “the first network equipment vendor to license Audible Magic’s CopySense technology, adding content sensing capabilities to their products. Audible Magic and Palisade have cross-licensed technologies and have jointly developed the first network appliances that identify copyrighted works ‘on the fly’ combined with the ability to block individual P2P file trades,” boasts Audible Magic.
Way back, when Audible Magic was still trying to hard to prove it was a viable defender of The Truth according to Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, RIAA boss Mitch Bainwol personally touted it around the US congress, trying to sell it as The Answer.
“During early 2004, RIAA executives helped guide Audible Magic CEO Vance Ikezoye around federal government offices, advocating the song-blocking technology as a tool for stopping copyright infringement on file-swapping networks,” said CNET News.
Palisade’s version of the Audible Magic technology, “sits inside a network, rather than inside a file-swapping program,” said CNET. “If installed in a university, for example, it could look inside students’ e-mails, instant messages and peer-to-peer transfers, seeking audio ‘fingerprints’ that could be compared with information in Audible Magic’s database.”
Meanwhile, Recording Industry vs The People’s Ray Beckerman, who’s defending Mrs Lindor, says Jacobson has been raised by the RIAA, “despite the facts that the papers were due last week, that Ms. Lindor’s son’s attorney has objected to the use of expert testimony at all, and that the RIAA has never turned over a hard drive report to Ms. Lindor’s attorneys.”
Stay tuned.
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Also See:
gain control – Us, Them, p2p and file sharing, December 9, 2006
helping to ruin – RIAA victim wants case dismissed, October 25, 2006
wrung the cloth dry – RIAA attacks Marie Lindor’s son, November 22, 2006
flatly refused – Xmas letter from Patti Santangelo, December 24, 2006
the real targets – RIAA goes after Santangelo kids, November 2, 2006
in the same boat – RIAA attacks Marie Lindor’s son, November 22, 2006
Recording Industry vs The People – RIAA Submits 26-Page Curriculum Vitae for Its “Expert”, December 26, 2006
like others – RIAA: trying it on with MediaSentry, December 17, 2006
defender of The Truth – Vaunted RIAA p2p ‘filter’ software, June 2, 2004
CNET News – New tool designed to block song swaps, April 21, 2004
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