RIAA gives student 24 hours
p2pnet.net news:- Texas high school student Nicholas Hightower, 17, his mother, June, and her sister, Rochelle, 58, are all potentially massive distributors of copyrighted online music, Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG claim.
The Big 4 don’t really know if that’s factual or not, but rather than have their theory tested in a court of civil law before a judge and a jury, they’re using their RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) to try to terrify June – she’s the victim in the direct line of fire, for now – into paying extortion money.
And they’ve decided to do that by leaning on Nicholas and Rochelle, demanding that the two show up in the RIAA lawyers’ offices on Tuesday (April 17), giving them only one day’s notice.
And Nicholas, who’s studying at an independent school in Houston, Texas, was slated to take his TAKS (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills) tests this week.
June Hightower’s lawyer, J. Goodwille Pierre, has filed a motion to quash the subpoena, and objections.
This harks back to the RIAA’s attempt to intimidate Tanya Andersen, a disabled in Oregon mother, by targetting her 10-year-old daughter, Kylee.
Ray Beckerman highlights this latest Big 4 coercion effort on Recording Industry vs The People.
But Nicholas isn’t the only student to be attacked by the RIAA.
Alongside its brutalization of ordinary people such as the Hightowers and Andersens, many, if not most, of them Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, customers, the RIAA is also deeply into bullying students at universities across America, with Ohio at the top of the hit list.
The RIAA is using the schools themselves as weapons and has just singled out 10 OU students for special attention.
p2pnet winds up its Sultans of Spin RIAA survey on Friday. We’ll be making details, plus the raw datas, available for free under Creative Commons license.
Also See:
Recording Industry vs The People – RIAA Subpoenas High School Student for Deposition; Demands He Miss Class; Gives Only 1-Day Notice; in Houston, Texas, case, April 18, 2007
intimidate Tanya Andersen – RIAA vs Kylee hits the mainstream , March 28, 2007
special attention – RIAA singles out 10 Ohio students, April 17, 2007
If your Net access is blocked by governBryan Adams slams Net radio hikement restrictions, try Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at thIs the endSurvey: How Did Copyright Infringement Become Equated with Robbery? (of the Net) nigh?zze University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies. Go here for the official download, here for the p2pnet download, and here for details. And if you’re Chinese and you’re looking for a way to access independent Internet news sources, try Freegate, the DIT program written to help Chinese citizens circumvent web site blocking outside of China. Download it here.
rss feed: http://p2pnet.net/p2p.rss | | Mobile – http://p2pnet.net/index-wml.php | | And use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site
Tired of being treated like a criminal? They depend on you, not the other way around. Don’t buy their ‘product’. Do bug your local politicians. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, faxes, IM, stop them in the street, blog. And if you’re into organizing, organize petitions, organize demonstrations and then turn up on your local political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance. Don’t just complain. Do something!
