RIAA must pay Debbie Foster $70,000
p2pnet news | RIAA news:- Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG have suffered another telling blow to their carefully orchestrated campaign to bend their customers to their wills by suing them.
Oklahoma mother Debbie Foster “proved once again that when the RIAA comes knocking, it pays to slam the door,” p2pnet posted at the beginning of this month.
Now, in a first for RIAA victims, after having used every trick in the legal book to avoid paying Foster’s attornies’ fees, as they’d been ordered to do, the labels’ RIAA has been told to pay her not $55,000, as she’d originally asked, but almost $70,000.
It’s a major triumph for Foster and her lawyer, Marilyn Barringer-Thomson (right), who haven’t wavered in their determination to bring the RIAA to book and make then pay what they owe.
The actual amount is $68,685.23, reports Recording Industry vs The People.
First the parent, then the child
It’s now common practice for the RIAA to first target the parents, and then go after their sons and daughters, and that’s exactly what happened with the Fosters.
Debbie Foster was initially lined up for special attention by the RIAA and its so-called Settlement Centre. Then the Big 4 enforcement unit attacked Foster’s daughter, Amanda.
The same thing happened with Patti Santangelo, Tanya Andersen and other mothers and their children across America, all of whom were, and are, completely innocent of the charges laid against them by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), which accuses them of being “massive online distributors” of copyrighted music, the same charge levelled against the Fosters.
Stay tuned.
Also See:
p2pnet – Debbie Foster RIAA hearing, July 4, 2007
Recording Industry vs The People – Judge Awards $68,685.23 in Attorneys Fees Against RIAA in Capitol v. Foster, July 16, 2007
Patti Santangelo – Michelle Santangelo vs the RIAA, July 16, 2007
Tanya Andersen – Tanya Andersen sues the RIAA, June 25, 2007
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July 17th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Now THAT is FUNNY! Iam laughing as I read this! Take THAT…….RIAA scumbags!
July 17th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
yes. that is nice. I hope that covers everything she owed, and some.
July 18th, 2007 at 2:23 am
Actually, in another article…it said she owed over $10,000 in legal fees! But at least it is a start!
July 18th, 2007 at 8:00 am
Ever heard of winning the battle, but losing the war?
She may have got a few pennies out of us, clever f* bitch, but we’re successfully extorting huge sums of money from thousands of other hapless sources of money. And we’re not stopping. I tell you people, it’s really funny a watching a bright kids future ruined just because they downloaded a couple of songs on campus. lol!
The general population are indeed becoming compliant consumers of our Product, make no mistake.
And have you noticed how the p2p networks are falling, one by one? Or getting absorbed by us ala Napster. eDonkey just fell over the other day, didn’t it? Every day, p2p, which is illegal, is going more and more underground, the signs are all around you. Open your eyes.
There’s nowhere to hide from us, suckers!!
July 18th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
RIAA rep…I hope you and your company fall into bankruptcy, I hope Cheryl Crow and The Eagles have to eat soup from homeless shelters and I hope that the WB-EMI-MCA-RCA big-shots like living in cardboard boxes. THE RIAA is DEAD, LONG LIVE P2P!
Now to go out and buy another couple of hundred CD-R’s…life is good…