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p2pnet.net news:- Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA has secretly tried to gain a new weapon in its campaign against p2p file sharers.
It wants carte blanche to force an ISP to hand over private information about a customer without the subscriber’s knowledge, and without any kind of legal (or otherwise) approval or oversight.
And the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) tried to keep the effort hidden.
The Big 4 have a set of routine tactical procedures used to try to coerce men, women and children accused of being illegal online distributors of music into settling out of court.
This simultaneously pulls money into the sue ‘em all coffers and saves the possibility of another embarrassing court defeat.
So far, not one of the more than 20,000 people, including very young children, targeted by the RIAA has ever appeared in a civil court before a judge or a jury, let alone been found guilty of anything. But the RIAA uses the mainstream media to give the impression that it’s had thousands of cases successfully tried.
The RIAA has now made an ex parte application to a district court in Denver, Colorado, the HQ of Holme, Roberts & Owen, the RIAA’s current hired legal guns, to, “asking the Judge to rule that no court order is needed in order for an ISP to turn over confidential subscriber information to the RIAA,” says Recording Industry vs The People.
An ex parte application, “is an application made where no other parties are given notice that the application is being made,” explains the post, adding:.
“The magistrate judge declined to rule on that issue, but issued the ex parte order the RIAA was asking for.”
The RIAA wants a ruling that the federal Cable Communications Policy Act doesn’t apply to Big 4 attempts to get subscriber information from cable companies.
The bid comes in concert with an RIAA campaign to force ISPs to act as Big 4 copyright cops by sending RIAA intimidation letters to subscribers.
_Also See:
Recording Industry vs The People - RIAA Goes Into Court “Ex Parte” in Denver, Colorado, Tries to Get Ruling that it Doesn’t Need Court Order to Get Subscriber Info from ISP’s, April 25, 2007
copyright cops - RIAA ‘extortion’ letter to ISPs, February 13, 2007
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April 29th, 2007 at 11:49 am
In other words, “I (the judge) don’t want to be held responsible for what happens” (seeing the students, being “children”, are probably guilty anyways so should just simply “take what’s coming to them”).
“Old-fashioned” judge rendering his decision without benefit of cumbersome legal technicalities since (according to old fogeys) their probably not needed, in this case.
What ARROGANCE.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Bad decisions are usually the result of ignorance. This case is exemplum of that.
By the way, what is ‘carte blanche’? carte looks like the vulgar form of the classic cartae. Unless it’s in the ablative declension of course. ‘blanche’ isn’t a latin word as far as i can tell. Ergo, this expression is nonsensical.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
Bad decisions are usually the result of ignorance. This case is exemplum of that.
By the way, what is ‘carte blanche’? carte looks like the vulgar form of the classic cartae. Unless it’s in the ablative declension of course. ‘blanche’ isn’t a latin word as far as i can tell. Ergo, this expression is nonsensical.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Bad decisions are usually the result of ignorance. This case is exemplum of that.
By the way, what is ‘carte blanche’? carte looks like the vulgar form of the classic cartae. Unless it’s in the ablative declension of course. ‘blanche’ isn’t a latin word as far as i can tell. Ergo, this expression is nonsensical.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Bad decisions are usually the result of ignorance. This case is exemplum of that.
By the way, what is ‘carte blanche’? carte looks like the vulgar form of the classic cartae. Unless it’s in the ablative declension of course. ‘blanche’ isn’t a latin word as far as i can tell. Ergo, this expression is nonsensical.
April 29th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
french (IIRC) origin baby!
the e’s would normaly have the nice accent on the.
google says:
complete freedom or authority to act
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
April 29th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carte_blanche
April 29th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
Oh, i assumed john was using latin, and he frequently does
The fact that carte is a later form of the classical cartae didn’t help. Excuse my ignorance of the french language.