Marie Lindor, RIAA copyright crook
p2pnet news | RIAA News:- The picture on the right is of a hardened copyright criminal, a massive distributor of copyrighted music and one of a vast online ring whose members have for years been “devastating” the major record labels .
So claim Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG who together comprise the Big 4 organised music cartel.
They’re calling the people supposedly bringing the corporate music spindustry to ruin, ‘pirates,’ but “Piracy is an idiotic word for what’s happening,” said Sony BMG’s Andy Lack,
Good word, “devastated,” posted p2pnet, going on:
It means layed to waste. Destroyed. Obviously, nothing could be further from the truth when it comes to the entertainment industries, which are raking in profits in the billions like there’s no tomorrow.
The music industry has been ‘devastated’ by p2p file sharing, said then CRIA (Canadian Record Industry Association of America) boss Michael Robertson in 2003. Music downloading has ‘devastated’ the industry, screamed his successor, Graham Hendeson, 12 months later.
‘Piracy, it can’t be said enough, has been devastating for us,’ declared Lack, going on, ‘The young - it is not their fault. Now we have an obligation on trying to educate them.’
You do that by suing them - ask students across America.
But first the parents have to brought to their knees - ask hard-core (according to the RIAA) copyright crook Marie Lindor (upper right).
However, she’s no more a thief than are Mitch Bainwol or Cary Sherman, the two men at the top of the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) totem pole, the so-called trade organisation which fronts for the corporate music industry and which has brought so much misery to so many Americans.
But ironically, only one of the Big 4, Warner, can be said be American, and even it’s run by a Canadian.
The others are EMI (Britain), Vivendi Universal (France) and Sony BMG (Japan and Germany).
‘A cartel acting collusively’
Mrs Lindor is a 57-year-old New York health worker who quite literally doesn’t know one end of a computer from the other.
She was, and is, innocent of all allegations and the RIAA bosses have known that since the day they launched their anti-P2P, anti-file sharing lawsuit against her.
But it’s the RIAA’s practice to first go after parents, even though they know there’s no merit to their charges.
Soften them up before the corporate legal teams turn on their real targets who are, in 99 cases out of 100, the younger family members, such as Woody Raymond, Mrs Lindor’s son.
That’s the Big 4 enforcer’s modus operandi.
Now, “We need to know why six (6) different multibillion dollar, multinational corporations .. need to pool all their resources to join forces against a home health aide living in Brooklyn,” says her lawyer, Ray Beckerman.
The answer?
They did it to, “increase their leverage in bludgeoning defendants into a defenseless posture, where accepting an extortionate settlement demand would be their only means of averting financial ruin,” he goes on in papers opposing the RIAA’s motion to dismiss her copyright misuse defense.
The labels, “thus avoided the sole issue that is properly before the Court on this motion,” he says, also stating:
The plaintiffs, who are competitors, are a cartel acting collusively in violation of the antitrust laws and of public policy, by tying their copyrights to each other, collusively litigating and settling all cases together, and by entering into an unlawful agreement among themselves to prosecute and to dispose of all cases in accordance with a uniform agreement, and through common lawyers, thus overreaching the bounds and scope of whatever copyrights they might have.
As such, they are guilty of misuse of their copyrights.
Stay tuned.
Jon Newton - p2pnet
Also See:
p2pnet - Open letter to parents, July 2, 2006
ask students across America - RIAA singles out Massachusetts students, September 12, 2007
Ray Beckerman - Marie Lindor Stands Behind Her Copyright Misuse Defense, Accuses Record Companies of Anticompetitive Behavior, September 12, 2007
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September 14th, 2007 at 11:13 am
So this is Marie Lindor! She look sooo much better than these white pieces of trashes of Carry Shitman and Glueman.
I love you Marie Lindor my Hero!
September 14th, 2007 at 11:15 am
‘Piracy, it can’t be said enough, has been devastating for us,’
Good!
September 17th, 2007 at 10:57 am
Actually, using the term “Pirate”, was not a great move if you are looking to discourage kids; as many of them see pirates as free spirits roaming the high seas, stealing booty and meeting dusky women when they come to port at Tortuga bay. Arrrrrrr!!!!!!