RIAA sues stroke victim
p2pnet.net news:- Death, illness or age won’t stand in the way of the Big 4 music cartel as its members do everything in their power to bend consumers to their individual and collective wills.
Now they’re suing John Paladuk, a man who’s been living off a disability pension since a stroke left him completely paralysed down his left side, and virtually unable to speak.
And why not?
The RIAA started its sue ‘em all marketing drive with a 12-year-old girl, progressed to a dead grandmother, attacked a former Vietnam helicopter pilot who died of a brain aneurism before the Big 4’s RIAA could properly get to him, and went on to harass a New York mother who’s seriously ill with multiple sclerosis.
Paladuk, who worked for the C&N Railroad for 36 years, told the RIAA he hadn’t engaged in copyright infringement but, says Recording Industry vs The People, the RIAA nonetheless went after him, ignoring his condition.
The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is one of the Big 4’s many international trade outfits. They’re engaged in a world-wide conspiracy to use national law enforcement authorities to force people to use online expensive, low quality sites supported by them rather than the affordable independent web pages and services used by 99% or online music lovers.
Hugely wealthy EMI (Britain), Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany) and Warner Music (US) claim they’re being “devastated” by people who share music with each other online.
They say they’re forced, with great reluctance, to sue people such as Paladuk, whom they say are “criminals” and “thieves” who “massively” distribute Big 4 ‘product’ online.
The lawsuits are essential if they’re to preserve their businesses, they assert, saying files shared equal sales lost, without ever having been able to prove the claim.
They say the lawsuits turn people away from the p2p networks and independent sites and towards the corproate sites they support and supply.
However, this too has turned out to be a disingenuous declaration.
Also See:
Recording Industry vs The People – RIAA Sues Stroke Victim in Michigan, March 13, 2007
disingenuous declaration – 1 billion songs a DAY shared online, March 8, 2007
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March 13th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Is there a url where those amongst use who are saddled with a human soul (this condition naturally excludes anyone employed by the RIAA) may learn more of the unfortunate person; Mr. Paladuk ?
March 13th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
That sucks and all, but what does the medical condition of one on the business end of a lawsuit from the RIAA have to do with the lawsuit itself?
Given that the suits are ill-founded and spurious, does it matter if the “victim” has cancer or if they’re perfectly healthy?
The whole thing smacks of pulling at heart strings and choosing sophistry over argument, which wouldn’t be nearly so annoying if there weren’t plenty of ground to argue from without resorting to such tripe.
March 13th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
” The whole thing smacks of pulling at heart strings and choosing sophistry over argument ”
Kind of like the legal sophistry the RIAA uses, in addition to it’s complete control over the corporate media channels.
Besides,
I personally have never seen compassion as ‘tripe’.
‘ Given that the suits are ill-founded and spurious, does it matter if the “victim” has cancer or if they’re perfectly healthy? ‘
It kind of does actually.
It outlines the fact that they like to pick and choose victims
that have no way of being able to afford to fight back.
It emphasises the most glaring flaw in our so-called ‘ legal ‘
system.
Money talks, no matter what, regardless of right.
March 13th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
your argument might — might — hold water if this was the only kind of case written about, but most of these kinds of cases on p2pnet are “ordinary” people just like you
March 13th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
I wonder, where are the missing link, the religious leaders, the local politicians, the labor unions. just to name a few groups, that could and should give moral and public support to the likes of Mr. Paladuk?
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com
March 14th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Guns talk louder than even money. If I was these RIAA pigs I will watch out.
March 14th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
I personally think that a decent society doesn’t let its federal judicial system become a tool for oppressing helpless people for no good reason.
Sorry you feel that’s an okay thing.