p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- In the lexicons of Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG and their RIAA, ‘extortion’ is spelled ’settlement’.

‘Blackmail’ is another word for it and both techniques are an absolutely central part of Big 4 operations as they use legal systems around the world to try to terrorize their own customers into becoming compliant consumers of corporate ‘product’.

In the US alone, around 40,000  people, including very young children, have been accused by the RIAA of being criminals and thieves.

They’re on the receiving end of demands that they either pay extortionate amounts to get the RIAA off their backs, or face the possibility of appearing in a civil court charged with copyright infringement.

Only one person has actually been before a jury, and even that case is likely to be ruled a mis-trial by the same judge who originally heard it.

Nonetheless, in a massive mainstream media PR blitz, the RIAA has been able to create entirely false impression that thousands of people have been successfully ‘prosecuted’ for the non-existent ‘crime’ of file-sharing.

Now Recording Industry vs The People is building a data base of materials on RIAA extortionate conduct.

“This is a work in progress,” says RIvTP’s Ray Beckerman, going on »»»

 “I thought it would be a good idea to centralize this subject and make it collaborative.

“If you have some favorites you would like to add, to what should be a pretty lengthy post, please email to me, or post them in the comments section. Either way, please provide a specific URL for reference purposes.

Here are a couple, just to start things off:

Ohio University Pays Dr. Doug Jacobson’s company $60,000 Plus $16,000 a year in “maintenance”; suddenly RIAA letters stop!

RIAA Insists on Deposing Tanya Andersen’s 10-year-old daughter in person, refuses to accept telephone or video deposition

RIAA’s expert admits RIAA investigator could not ‘detect an individual’ even though RIAA lawyers have been filing court papers saying investigator ‘detected an individual’

Magistrate Judge suggests Rule 11 sanctions for RIAA lawyers’ “gamesmanship” on joinder issue

Judge says: “The concern of this Court is that in these lawsuits, potentially meritorious legal and factual defenses are not being litigated, and instead, the federal judiciary is being used as a hammer by a small group of plaintiffs to pound settlements out of unrepresented defendants”

Stay tuned.

JN

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