RIAA punishes Brittany for resisting
p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- They’re nasty. They’re vicious. They’re hookers working for the RIAA.
And they’ll (try to) justify the evil they do to people such as Michigan student Brittany Kruger by saying they’re lawyers so it’s OK: that it’s their duty to do whatever they can to help their clients, the unprincipled representatives of a corporate street gang called the Big 4.
Why do I mention Brittany in particular out of the 40,000 innocent people, including very young children, across America who are being harried and harassed by RIAA hit lawyers, such as those working for Holme Roberts & Owen or, on this occasion, by Matthew E. Krichbaum (right)?
Because she and her father, Randy, have been standing alone against false accusations levelled at her – that she’s an illegal distributor of copyrighted ‘product’ owned by Sony Music, UMG (Vivendi Universal), Elektra, Atlantic, and Warner Bros Records.
Brittany wouldn’t do what she was ordered to do by smiling HRO partner Donald Kelso (below), so now the gang is tuning her up, with Krichbaum on the front end.
If you’re a regular reader and his name seems familiar, it’s because you’ve come across it on p2pnet before when he was acting for the labels against another Brittany who this time, was 14.
“Having already failed once to nail Brittany Chan through her mother, Candy, the Big Music cartel is now going after Britanny again, this time by herself,” I wrote in 2005.
Because its standard operating procedure for Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music to first falsely accuse the parent or parents of being massive illegal online distributors of copyrighted music and once they’ve wrung that dry in the mainstream media, to turn on the children.
Ask Patti Santangelo and two of her children, Michelle and Bobby.
Brittany Chan was only 13 when the labels went after her, and she was a year older when they hired Krichbaum, of Ann Arbour, Michigan, to demand the US District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan appoint a Guardian ad Litem, in other words, an official legal guardian — which she definitely needed with the venal and corrupt labels trying to get her.
‘I’m not a criminal. I’m not a tough person. I cry almost every night …’
“My name is Brittany Kruger,” she said in a letter to p2pnet. “I’m not a criminal. I’m not a tough person. I cry almost every night these days, and I’m scared to death of what is going to happen to me in the future.”
Now Brittany and her father, Randy, desperately need a pro bono lawyer because they’ve been standing by themselves against the multi-billion-dollar corporate music industry.
And now the Big 4 have raised their trumped up charges against Brittany because she refused to cave in to demands that she ‘settle’.
Or else.
At the beginning of April Brittany had a nice letter from Kelso.
It told her she had 14 days to pay for false corporate music industry copyright infringement claims with disgraced RIAA private eye MediaSentry, fired by the Big 4 late last year, providing the ‘facts’.
When she received the letter, the labels cited eight songs.
Now, through Krichbaum, they’ve more than doubled the number, naming 20 tunes and going for “statutory damages” which, at this point, could be as high as $150,000 for each song, costs and lawyers’ fees which by themselves would be enough to financially cripple the Krugers.
“This looks like punishment for resisting,” Brittany’s father, Randy, told p2pnet.
It does, doesn’t it.
Stay tuned.
Jon Newton – p2pnet
April, 2009
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April 30th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Wow – Sad story…
Keep up the fight Brittany – I’m sure you will win in court!
It is about time the RIAA / MPAA were disbanded – The laws are there to protect people like Brittany, not to make the corporations money… It is about time that this was realised by law!
April 30th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Really sad, god bless the Krugers for standing so strong for so long… against plain evil.
I hope some ‘big’ lawyer reads this and decides to help out… i think this case falls into the pool of really deserving ones that need help, if you can please give it to them…
April 30th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
To quote Marvin the Martian:
“Oh, that wasn’t a bit nice…You have made me very angry… very angry indeed!”
This kind of crap makes me wanna put on spandex and fight crime! (Or wonder if its too late for law school at 36….) What about hooking her up with that Harvard Law professor and his students? Any headway there?
April 30th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Extortion. Plain and simple.
April 30th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
I wonder how long it will be before these thugs bully one or more of these teens to commit suicide. Would they then be charged with murder? These sorts of strong-arm tactics over what are really small-time offenses is really unconscionable. After all they are the ones who arrived at the “thousands per song” penalty and so they are the ones who are forcing this to be a major crime.
April 30th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
The extents that lawyers will go to to in the name of “justice” for their client is frequently sickening to the pit of the stomach of any right-minded human being.
My heart truly goes out to Brittany. More power to you.
Thanks to stories like yours, I have pledged to never provide a cent to the music industry as it currently exists for the rest of my life. I only wish I could do more to persuade others to do the same.
April 30th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
^^ It’s happened. But it wasn’t a teen. Unfortunately, I can’t go into detail.
Cheers!
April 30th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Well, at least they are loyal to their standard operating procedure:
They always to this “adding” of songs they previously have no intention to “protect” their copyrights in, in the beginning of the terrorising!
So while this is nothing new in their behaviour, it serves as further proof that they DO NOT do their stuff for a legitimate lawful purpose of protecting their copyrights, but plain and simple for their ulteriour message: “Resist us” and we get nasty, very nasty!
Where are the ex-collegues of the vietnam vet helicopter pilot that this Krichbaum might have indirectly manslaughtered (stressing and harrassing him till his then high bloodpreassure caused a deadly artery rupture) when you need them?
But at least If there are no vets that restore fair justice we can have the hope that this Krichbaum dies a painful natural death one day!
Comparing the picture that is used this time by jon and the one from last time I checked him out when he was the evil guy in the Scantlebury Case, it seems he is aging extremely rapidly.
Hopefully some genetic defect or other bad desease that god punished this bad bad guy with in response for all the extra-lawful motives those MAFIAA gangsters pursue via lemmings like Krichbaum and co!
April 30th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
This should be considered domestic terrorism.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
domestic terrorism
That is exactly what it is. And the bastards are getting away with it. What a fucking country. And are saying like this young woman are the criminals. It makes me sick to my stomach.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
They are organized crime. Plain & simple. Organized crime supported by the government.
May 1st, 2009 at 12:08 am
I think the RIAA may have been the inspiration behind Scientologies Fair Game policy.
“ruin them utterly” – L. Ron Hubbard
May 1st, 2009 at 4:14 am
Brittany not only needs a lawyer but one who understands technology. She also needs a judge and jury who understand computers. After all, the RIAA have accused printers of copyright infringement, children, the deceased and even a Grandmother who used the Windows-only Kazaa on her MacIntosh computer. Say what???
I hope Brittany says NO to extortionists and fights them to the very end. Good luck Brittany.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:55 am
This is disproportionate to the EXTREME. Judges, courts, any and all government bodies etc. etc…. ALL equally guilty by implicit collusion.
May 1st, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Looks like it’s time “RICO” got involved:
from wikipedia:
“Under RICO, a person who is a member of an enterprise that has committed any two of 35 crimesâ27 federal crimes and 8 state crimesâwithin a 10-year period can be charged with racketeering. Those found guilty of racketeering can be fined up to $25,000 and/or sentenced to 20 years in prison per racketeering count. In addition, the racketeer must forfeit all ill-gotten gains and interest in any business gained through a pattern of “racketeering activity.” RICO also permits a private individual harmed by the actions of such an enterprise to file a civil suit; if successful, the individual can collect treble damages.”
what 2 crimes have RIAA / MPAA commited??
Well you could argue they have used:
Extortion (Pay us $3,000 to settle or we’ll go after you for $45,000)
Obstruction of justice (See entries in http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/ for a few of them)
I’m sure there are a few “Title 18″ offenses you could argue RIAA and MPAA have broken….
May 1st, 2009 at 1:50 pm
There’s a special place in eternity for the Kelsos and other demons like him. They will make their ill gotten fortunes here on earth, and rot like nothing else thereafter. Rest in hell RIAA, Kelso, and companies, we’ll see who gets the last laugh
May 2nd, 2009 at 10:01 am
I should add that the case was filed the week of final exams at Northern Michigan. Just another example of the class of people we are dealing with. RK.
May 3rd, 2009 at 11:16 am
This is why, when Shakespeare wrote “KILL ALL OF THE LAWYERS,” he was absolutely correct.
Think: This country would be a much better place without all of the greedy, corrupt, smug, self-serving lawyers.