RIAA MediaSentry violates C&D order
p2pnet news | RIAA News:- Yesterday, p2pnet posted seriously discredited RIAA private eye MediaSentry was complying with an all-out ban filed by the Massachusetts State Police.
Has MediaSentry Ceased and Desisted in Massachusetts? – we asked a state certification officer,
“As far as I know, they have,” she responded.
But according to Recording Industry vs The People, the company, owned by SafeNet, has violated the order.
The situation is made crystal clear by sergeant Chester Bishop of the force’s certification unit who, in a January 2 letter to MediaSentry’s Chris Steven Fedde, states >>>
An investigation by this office has revealed that you advertising and operating a Private Detective company under the title of “SafeNet, Inc.” and “MediaSentry”. A review of our records, indicates that you are not licensed to conduct investigations in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under this business name.
This is an official cease and desist order. your company is not licensed to advertise or perform the business of Private Investigations in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. you are in violation of MGL Chapter 147, Sections 22 and 23. If further enquiries proved that you are currently operating advertising without a licence complaints were violations of this statute would be forthcoming.
Specifically, MGL Chapter 147, Section 23 states that “No persons shall engage in, advertise or hold himself out as being engaged in, nor solicit private detective business or the business of watch, guard or control agency, notwithstanding the name or title used in describing such business, unless licensed for such purpose as provided in section twenty five”. Section 23 Also states, ” whoever violate any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred for more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
But, says RIvTP >>>
In London-Sire v. Doe 1 (formerly Arista v. Does 1-21), the case targeting Boston University students in which the presiding judge has tentatively quashed the RIAA’s subpoena pending the Court’s review of the university’s internet use “terms of service” agreement, a motion to vacate the RIAA’s papers has been made by the students based on proof that MediaSentry has been violating the cease and desist order previously issued by the Massachusetts State Police on January 2, 2008, continuing to conduct investigations without an investigator’s license.
Will the Massachusetts police now jail and/or fine MediaSentry and/or Fedde for failing to cease-and-desist?
Definitely stay tuned 
Jon Newton – p2pnet
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April 10th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Hopefully, someone at Media Centry and at the RIAA will go to jail for this.
April 10th, 2008 at 11:17 am
That’d be pretty awesome
April 10th, 2008 at 11:34 am
yeh, and the people who hired them too
April 10th, 2008 at 11:52 am
A few shiny new police cars (bmw’s ?) will sort that one
April 13th, 2008 at 5:06 am
They must be the most corrupt organization on earth. So don’t believe a word of their propaganda directed at music file sharers. Anything they say is lies. They couldn’t lie straight in bed. Crooked as spastic pretzels. Coming a close 2nd is the MPAA & their cronies