RIAA drops Cassin, Part II
p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA legal beagles are finally realising they’ve been building their sue `em all house on clay foundations by churning out boilerplate complaints, p2pnet posted a little more than a year ago, going on:
“Now they`re trying desperately to shore it up.”
But their efforts were wasted.
More ‘convoluted litigation tactics’ on the part of Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA caught the eye of Wired’s David Kravets, said p2pnet.
He’d described the plight a New York family accused of copyright infringement, writing >>>
The RIAA was initially zeroing in on the mother, Joan Cassin, as being the copyright infringer.
Two weeks later, the RIAA subsequently re-filed the identical allegations in a new lawsuit that was sent to another judge because the RIAA did not `relate` the cases. The record companies immediately demanded discovery to find out whose Kazaa file share folder was open for the pilfering of music – a share folder on the same Verizon internet account used at the Cassin household.
The previous judge halted discovery, pending his `making available` ruling.
The new lawsuit was filed as a Doe case, meaning it didn`t name a defendant.
The RIAA said Monday it dismissed the original claim against the mother on the word of her attorney, Ray Beckerman, an outspoken critic of the RIAA who runs the blog Recording Industry vs The People.
Beckerman, who described the RIAA as `psychos` and suggested the RIAA was shopping for a new judge in the case, had informed the RIAA that the mother was innocent of the allegations.
How come the Big 4 enforcer didn’t bother to mention the first suit when it got into the second?
Be that as it may, Warner Bros Records v Cassin, the Westchester case challenging the “making available” theory, has been settled, says Recording Industry vs The People, adding:
“A notice of dismissal without prejudice of the 2nd phase of that case, the case against the ‘John Does’, was filed today.
What did the RIAA and the Big 4 get out of it.
A year’s worth of PR from another spurious ‘prosecution’ used to dupe gullible members of the mainstream media who still believe thousands of civil cases have been successfully brought against alleged file sharers, when in fact the RIAA score so far is Zero.
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p2pnet – `Convoluted` RIAA tactics `laughable nonsense`, June 18, 2008
Wired – RIAA Defends Refiling Contested Piracy Case With New Judge, June 17, 2008
Recording Industry vs The People – Warner Bros. Records v. Cassin case settled, November 26, 2008
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November 28th, 2008 at 6:42 am
isn’t this the kind of tactics scientology uses?
hmmm , i wonder who educate whom
could they be one and the same in origin?