p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- Elisa Greubel, 15, made headlines when she contacted Nettwerk Music artist MC Lars to say his ‘Download This Song,’ a track on his then latest release, really meant something to her.

“That was because Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG were trying extort a lot of money from her father, David, for supposedly sharing nine copyrighted songs online,” said p2pnet, going on:

“MC Lars passed Elisa’s message to Canada’s Terry McBride, who runs Nettwerk, and he decided, ‘Suing music fans isn’t the solution, it’s the problem,’ as he told p2pnet in a Q&A.

“So he decided to pick up the Greubel’s legal bill.”

The case has been ’settled,’ but it’s all taken place behind closed doors, so to speak.

Back in May Elisa’s father, David, agreed to a Q&A but later, on the advice of his lawyers, Browning and Mudd, changed his mind.

Now, “The settlement document contains no information on the terms,” says Recording Industry vs The People.

That’s a shame. It’s in the interests of anyone and everyone attacked by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA to be as public as possible, especially where young people are concerned.

“Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG their RIAA have often been compared to the Mafia and, like the Mafia, they go after the weak and helpless, knowing their muscle and their goons will terrorise most people into accepting extortion they believe they can’t refuse,” said p2pnet.

“Pay the RIAA to go away.”

But, we went on, there is a difference, and it’s a substantial one >>>

Mafia hoods don’t go after children.

RIAA hoods do, and not in any collateral sense.

p2pnet continued »»»

Ask RIAA victims who have kids. Children are from the very beginning the designated targets with parents used as stage one in the RIAA softening up process.

And it doesn’t matter how young they are, or that they’re the customers of the future.

Ask Brianna LaHara, Brittany Chan, Kylee Andersen, Michelle and Bobby Santangelo, or any of the other literally thousands of kids who, despite their ages, became RIAA victims in the literal sense of the word.

Sadly, it seems there’s no need to stay tuned for this one.

Download This Song - RIAA ‘predatory litigation tactics’, February 27, 2006
p2pnet - RIAA goes after the Greubel children, May 24, 2008
Recording Industry vs The People - UMG v. Greubel settled in Texas, September 4, 2008

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