RIAA fails to get student IDs
p2pnet news | RIAA news:- One RIAA sneak attack levelled at the University New Mexico students has already been vanquished.
Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) tried to weasel the university into giving it the identities of students.
Then it tried to do the same in Newport News, Virginia.
The first time around, “judge Lorenzo F. Garcia refused to cooperate, denying the RIAA’s ex parte motion,” said p2pnet.
Now the RIAA has suffered a similar defeat, this time at the hands of Judge Walter D. Kelley, Jr, reports Recording Industry vs The People.
In Interscope v Does 1-7, the RIAA’s demand for an order granting discovery into the identities of students at the College of William & Mary was thrown out, says the story.
Seven students used the college network to, “access an online media distribution system for the purpose of downloading and distributing plaintiffs` copyrighted works,” says a court document.
But Kelley wasn’t having any, ruling the RIAA effort wasn’t covered under the law.
Also See:
already been vanquished – Judge Garcia foils the RIAA, June 20, 2007
Recording Industry vs The People – Virginia Judge Denies RIAA Ex Parte Motion Against College of William and Mary students in Interscope v. Does 1-7, July 14, 2007
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July 14th, 2007 at 8:54 am
It is most gratifying to see a Judge deny an ex parte application like that. I.e., only the RIAA was in court. No one else — not the students, not even the university — knew about it or had a chance to say anything.
This is an example of a good judge doing his homework and actually reading the statutes, and not being impressed by pounds of paper and doubletalk.
I am very happy to see judges like Judge Kelley and Judge Garcia taking a close look, and saying to the RIAA thugs : “Wait a minute, this is still a court of law, not a schoolyard where bullies can just do whatever they want to defenseless people. We have a rule of law, here, buddy.”
July 14th, 2007 at 11:24 am
Wer a judge rule in favor of these piece of shit up to destray our society for profit there is two possibilites:
He/She is incompetent and he/she should be dismissed at best or he /she is corrupted and he/she should go to jail like all these RIAA parasites for extortion.
July 14th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Until accountability is returned to government there will not be a review of judgeships. Political back-scratching and the fear of being exposed themselves for their own wrong doings have led to a no check on judgeships meaning that often where they are not elected by the public there is no check at all.
There is a means of removing judges that are incompetent or proved to be on the take. Unfortunetly, it hasn’t been envoked in decades. That sort of tells you how our system is working. It isn’t that judges (being just as human as the rest of us) have gotten more moral and upright but that less interest is present in upsetting the feeding line at the swill trough. By no means am I saying that all judges are on the take. But you can be sure human nature hasn’t changed in the last several 100s of years so you can be positive it still exists, even if you don’t have the particular facts yourself.
Our govenment is being run by crooks that are less worried about being exposed because everyone is protecting their own backyards.
July 15th, 2007 at 8:30 am
The story is about a good judge doing a good job for the American people. And the last 2 posts are about how bad the judiciary is.
Can someone explain that for me?
July 15th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Mr. Beckerman, I can explain it. Government corruption and the people’s satisfaction with their masters is at an all time low. The people are looking for a way to express their dissatisfaction even if it is through off-topic posts. The majority of bad judges have given the few good judges a bad name. I do commend the good judges though, because they are back peddling against a torrent of corruption. In this rare instance, justice has actually prevailed.
July 16th, 2007 at 9:26 am
“The story is about a good judge doing a good job for the American people. And the last 2 posts are about how bad the judiciary is.”
If the post was about a jar of honey that happens to be floating in a sea of shit you can count on getting some comments about the shit.