Comments on: Selling promo CDs on eBay is OK

By: DTS

DTS — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:38:51 +0000

Eventually, we’ll see the RIAA suing people who don’t have a shred of music, be it album or file, in their home. All the RIAA will claim they need is to ask defendants if they’ve heard of Britney Spears, and they’ll be guilty if they answer in the affirmative. If there’s no computer or tape recorder, the RIAA will claim that evidence was destroyed. If there was a radio, the RIAA will claim that people outside the house or visitors were “illegally distributed” to. If there’s no album, they’ll claim that the defendant didn’t “lose it”; the defendant “knowingly infringed on copyright” — regardless of whether such an album even existed, a burden of proof the RIAA certainly won’t be carrying.

In short, unless you’re living in the central sector of the Sahara Desert, the RIAA will be knocking on your doors for their ludicrously expensive pocket money.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:42:41 +0000

An absurd legal experiment to hound an individual. A legal guessing game by a lawyer. It goes on all the time and lawyeres love to do it because it is profitable. And the corts love it because it gives work to judges who are also lawyers.

Troy Augusto, the defendant in this case should now sue (if he did not already) for violation of his rights.
These rights are including his right to peace, right to not be extorted, right to make a living and profit and right to sell his properties. He should be the last victim of legal hounding in the courts.

He should also get legal expenses in the current case.

Another nail in the coffin of record companies.

By: RIAA rrepp

RIAA rrepp — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:56:05 +0000

Hmmm… we’ve more than doubled the backhanders and *still* we’re losing! (cry)

Might try threats of violence as the stick next.