Concord law students defend RIAA victim
p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- New Hampshire law students have joined others in the US who are determined to help innocent RIAA victims who lack the financial and legal resources to defend themselves against false claims of illicit online distribution.
This will have a powerful effect, encouraging professors and students at other law schools to take on hitherto defenceless people being pilloried by the corporate music industry.
In a case slated to go to trial in the fall of next year, student attorneys at the Consumer and Commercial Law Clinic of the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, are acting on behalf of another alleged “massive illegal distributor of copyright music”.
They’re defending Mavis Roy, targeted by the RIAA in New Hampshire, in UMG Recordings v Roy, says Recording Industry vs The People.
She’s accused of distributing 218 music files online.
Singled out for special treatment
“One of the most important, but as yet largely unrecognized, Big Music stories to break this year centres on a small university legal clinic in Maine,” p2pnet posted in December, 2007, going on, “And, it’s about to cause a revolution in the P2P filesharing war launched by Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG.
“In what’s probably a world’s first, not lawyers, but student attorneys at the University of Maine School of Law’s Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic have themselves taken up the fight on behalf of fellow students.”
Then in February, “Students across America have been singled out for special treatment as the carefully orchestrated scheme moves into its fifth year,”said another p2pnet post. “RIAA president Cary Sherman calls the bitter attacks ‘tough love‘,” it went on. “But the tide is turning, inexorably, with major universities deciding students’ interests must come before those of the corporate music industry.
This time, the University of San Francisco Internet/Intellectual Property Justice Clinic had taken the unprecedented step of assigning students to help a New York law firm defend clients under attack by the RIAA.
Next up was Harvard in what’s fast becoming the most famous example of Law students vs The RIAA.
And with the addition of the Concord case, the tide is still turning.
The RIAA has lost all credibility as a trade organisation genuinely looking after the interests of its so-called members who, to all intents and purposes, are Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US, but controlled by a Canadian), despite the fact RIAA is short for Recording Industry Association of America.
Instead, it’s revealed as a black-hearted bully organisation whose primary role is to victimise innocent people across America whom it calls criminals and thieves — people such as »»»
- Ciara Sauro, a 19-year-old transplant patient
- Marie Lindor, a New York health aide who doesn’t know one end of a computer from the other
- Rae-Jay Schwartz (above right), wheelchair-bound by multiple sclerosis, the terrible medical condition which attacks the central nervous system
- Tanya Andersen, a disabled Oregon mother
- Larry Scantlebury, a helicopter pilot who flew for America in Vietnam and who died when an aneurysm in his brain ruptured shortly after he was attacked by the RIAA.
Thousands of other equally innocent people have since 2003 been singled out in Big 4 subpoenas so they could be tried in public by innuendo.
But in all that time, not one person has been found guilty in a court of law of any of the claims levelled by the RIAA .
Stay tuned.
Jon Newton- p2pnet
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December 4th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Does anybody else here see a dark year for the RIAA in 2009?
I don’t think 2009 will kill them completely, but its going to be one hell of a year for the most hated organization!
December 4th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Hey I know this is off topic sorta, but has anyone noticed the soulseek server is down?
Anybody know what’s going on here?
December 4th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
“Larry Scantlebury, a helicopter pilot who flew for America in Vietnam and who died when an aneurysm in his brain ruptured shortly after he was attacked by the RIAA. ‘
IT IS MORE THAN TIME TO SHOW THESE RECORDING INDUSTRY PARASITES AND CRIMINALS WHAT ‘tough love‘ REALLY IS!