p2pnet - rss feed: More trouble for RIAA ‘Private Eye’ MediaSentry
p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- The RIAA’s Private Eye must be watering badly.
Called MediaSentry and owned by so-called SafeNet, it’s the ‘private investigator’ of choice for Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA, and it was caught with its undergarments around its ankles, p2pnet said last month, going on:
“Massachusetts State Police at the beginning of the year MediaSentry to cease and desist, according to court papers filed by a Boston University student who was asking the court to to quash an RIAA subpoena.
“So did it C&D?
“Nope.”
Another complaint was lodged against MediaSentry by North Carolina State University students in Raleigh.
They charged it with the crime of unlicensed investigation.
And now its troubles have doubled. Or is it tripled? Or maybe even quadrupled?
The Central Michigan University filed a complaint against it with Michigan’s Department of Labor and Economic Growth, says Recording Industry vs The People’s Ray Beckerman.
“This is at least the second such complaint in Michigan, the first having gotten the RIAA’s unlicensed investigation firm into a pickle when its lawyer, responding to the accusations, made statements directly contradicting statements he’d made a month earlier in UMG v. Lindor,” he says, adding:
“The 32-page complaint (PDF) cites to MediaSentry’s problems in 8 other states, including the Massachusetts cease and desist letter, and cites to MediaSentry’s own promotional materials and the RIAA’s court papers as evidence of the illegal activity.”
Definitely stay tuned.
Jon Newton - p2pnet
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August 5th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Lets hope this group of criminals are hung out to dry.
August 6th, 2008 at 8:09 am
[test - sorry if tripple posted]
Seems urls are getting eaten by the system (spam?). But if you google
michigan golf coach copyright
You’ll get a related story. The RIAA is still at it, this time at Michigan State.
August 6th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
I agree, I think this band of bullying thuggish criminals should be put in jail for the maximum sentence allotted. How can you accuse someone of breaking the law if the way you obtain this information is in itself illegal?? You can’t, furthermore this supposed “evidence” is not nor ever has been evidence!! Yet the fact remains they knew this and were complicit in the criminal persecution of countless innocence that of which is a crime in and of itself!! RIAA/MPAA’s new motto “We don’t have to follow the law…. BUT YOU DO!!!!!”!!
Needless to say it is going to be interesting to see how those thugs cope without the help of the corrupt biased injustice system of the technologically illiterate “9th district” as they venture off in to far-out lands whom seem to have adapted to adopting a strange new concept called LAW!!
In such lands where law applies I doubt ( very strongly ) they will get far…