p2pnet.net news:- A lawyer in California has sent Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA scuttling off, its tail between its legs.

As Ray Beckerman posted in Recording Industry vs The People, Merl Ledford III, of Visalia, California, threatened the Big 4 enforcer with a malicious prosecution lawsuit unless it dropped the case it had lodged against his “middle-aged, conservative clients,” the Merchants.

Ledford’s letter is brilliant, a masterpiece of polite but steely menace which immediately cowed the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), which usually finds itself doing the cowing, and hired hands Holme Roberts & Owens represented, in this instance, by associate Thomas McCarten Kerr (right).

Faced with a determined, erudite and very obviously well-versed lawyer rather than a 10-year-old victim, the RIAA and HRO, acting for Sony BMG, BNG Music, Priority Records, Warner Bros Records, Interscope Records, Maverick Recording Co, Virgin records America and UMG Recordings, ran for the hills, voluntarily dismissing the case without prejudice, meaning they can revisit it.

Not that they will.

Slashdot it!

Also See:
Recording Industry vs The People - Dear RIAA: better think again, March 27, 2007
Recording Industry vs The People - Model Letter for Lawyers Representing Defendants in RIAA Cases, March 27, 2007
10-year-old victim - RIAA vs Kylee Andersen, 10, March 27, 2007

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