Students unite to fight RIAA case
p2pnet news | RIAA News:- The pressure continues to build against Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG and their RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America).
Thanks wholly to the RIAA’s bitter and ongoing persecution of Big 4 customers, the world media are waking up to the fact all is not as it should be in the corporate music industry.
Universities across America are refusing to help their own students against ongoing attacks by the corporate music industry.
So now seven students have taken things into their own hands, setting the pace for what could become a major disaster for the organise music cartel.
The students are among the estimated 30,000 US victims of the bizarre sue ‘em all marketing campaign under which the Big 4 are using legal systems around the world to try and force people into becoming compliant consumers of corporate music ‘product’.
By teaming up, students can, “pool their limited financial resources,” writes Ray Beckerman on Recording Industry vs The People.
“Large groups of students pooling their resources will be the RIAA’s worst nightmare,” he says, going on:
Seven (7) North Carolina State University students named as “John Does” have joined together, in LaFace v. Does 1-38, in Raleigh, North Carolina, to make a motion to vacate the ex parte discovery order that was entered without their knowledge, to quash the subpoena served pursuant to that order, and to dismiss the case altogether due to improper joinder.
This is the fifth such motion of which we are aware, but the first in which such a large group of students joined together to fight the RIAA.
All seven students are represented by Robertson, Medlin & Blocker, in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Will other students follow this example?
Stay tuned.
Also See:
not as it should be – RIAA accused of `Failure to Warn`, October 15, 2007
Recording Industry vs The People – RIAA’s Worst Nightmare: 7 NC State Students Band Together to Vacate Ex Parte Order in LaFace v. Does 1-38, October 16, 2007
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October 17th, 2007 at 8:16 am
I hope they win and give the RIAA a black eye.
October 17th, 2007 at 8:18 am
7 a large number? well as long as they don’t become magnificent
October 17th, 2007 at 9:18 am
They already ARE the magnificent 7
October 17th, 2007 at 11:41 am
And check this out – http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13688
Cheers!
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:18 am
Great article. Personaly I hope they win. Universities create children for Governments to support the human farming life cycle – and – at the same time do they not teach people to ask, question, search, or reason (Instead we get word like ‘protestors’). A artist shows his or her work. Anything else has another word like ‘show person’, ‘side show freak’, ‘pollution’, and many more like ‘performing artist’, etc.. (would use words like ‘lolly pop pedos’ or ‘musical sex workers’ but im nice:))
What a pitty people can’t sue the Music Industry and other cartells including the Media and Governments (one way lane, dual carrage).