p2pnet news | RIAA News:- New York lawyer Ray Beckerman runs Recording Industry vs The People, the Net’s principal —- in fact its only —- archive of cases and histories centering on Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s ongoing attacks on their own customers, whom they accuse of being criminals and thieves.

Not even students, struggling to get through their exams, are exempt.

The PACER Service Center is the US federal judiciary’s centralized registration, billing, and technical support center for electronic access to US District, Bankruptcy, and Appellate court records.

"For those of you who have or want to open PACER accounts, and want to help out in the fight against the RIAA’s litigation campaign, here is a watch list of cases, which I’d appreciate your monitoring whenever you can," says Beckerman, going on:

"If anything happens, please email me the .pdf’s. This will be a recurring post, in which cases will be added to and subtracted from the list, so make a note of the permalink near the bottom."

The PACER login page is here. To sign up for PACER go here.

RIAA Case Watchlist

• SONY BMG v Williams (formerly SONY BMG v. Does 1-5) CD California 07-2434
• Warner v Lewis WD Louisiana 07-1280
• Atlantic v Howell D Ariz 06-2076
• Interscope v Rodriguez SD Cal 06-2485
• Arista v Does 1-17 OR 07-6197
• Interscope v Does 1-7 ED Virginia 07-52
• Atlantic v Brennan D CT 07-232

Not at all incidentally, Beckerman is also defending RIAA victims such as Marie Lindor, the Brooklyn home health aide accused of being a massive online distributor of copyrighted corporate music, and Rae-Jay Schwartz, a New York mother bound to her wheelchair by multiple sclerosis, the deadly disease of the central nervous system, who hadn’t heard of file sharing until the RIAA came after her.

The University of San Francisco Internet/Intellectual Property Justice Clinic recently took the unprecedented step of assigning students to Beckerman to help him defend a 60-year-old Haitian woman who speaks broken English, works six days a week for $8.50 an hour, has never used a computer but who finds herself charged as an "online media distributor".

Stay tuned.

Jon Newton – p2pnet

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