p2pnet - rss feed: RIAA stymied in hard drive bid
p2pnet.net news:- Having wrung the cloth dry with Marie Lindor, a New York mother they’d accused of being an online music distributor, Warner Music, EMI, Sony BMG and Vivendi Universal switched their attention to her son, Woody Raymond, a paralegal in a law firm, p2pnet posted last November.
“And they’ve come up with a refinement to another old ploy - trying to access victims’ hard drives, a trick they’d tried on Lindor,” said the story.
However, reports Recording Industry vs The People, it’s another failure for Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA.
“The Magistrate has denied the RIAA’s motion, in UMG v. Lindor, to compel Ms. Lindor’s son to turn over his desktop computer, reasoning that Plaintiffs have offered little more than speculation to support their request for an inspection of Mr. Raymond’s desktop computer, based on than his family relationship to the defendant, the proximity of his house to the defendant’s house, and his determined defense of his mother in this case. That is not enough.
“On the record before me, plaintiffs have provided scant basis to authorize an inspection of Mr. Raymond’s desktop computer.
It’s standard RIAA operating procedure to first attack parents, frequently mothers, to line up the children, and this happened with Raymond’s mother, Marie Lindor.
It failed to prove a case against her, so the BIG 4 went after Raymond, represented by Richard Altman, and the court has now ruled the RIAA RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) can take a “limited deposition of Mr. Raymond” to see if he had anything else “in his custody, possession, or control” at the time a screenshot was taken of his mother’s, “and whether he’d hooked them up to his mother’s internet connection”.
Also See:
switched their attention - RIAA attacks Marie Lindor’s son, November 22, 2006
Recording Industry vs The People - Judge Denies RIAA Motion to Compel Ms. Lindor’s Son to Turn Over His Desktop Computer; Orders Limited Deposition as to other devices, March 31, 2007
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