Help Brittany beat the RIAA: I
p2pnet news view Kids & Kartels | P2P:- It’s time for me to put my money where my mouth is.
I’ve been writing about the cruelty inflicted by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music on the same people they expect to keep them fat and happy and although the pen is mightier than the sword, goes the saying, money makes the legal wheels go around, to paraphrase another maxim.
And now it’s time to help Brittany Kruger.
I’m going to contribute to a fund I hope can be put together for Brittany in the same way Fight Goliath helped Patti Santangelo, someone else the RIAA did its best to hang, draw and quarter, but failed.
A wicked crew
Brittany is second from the end on the right and with her, from left to right, are Callia, Theresa, Alison, Jodi, Julie, and Hannah —- a scary,
evil-looking crew, if ever I saw one!
Is that an mp3 player in Brittany’s hand? If it is, she’s obviously as crook. Because as everyone also knows (Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music and their RIAA have told them so), anyone who doesn’t buy their mp3 downloads from ’services’ supplied by the Big 4 is a SCURVY FILE SHARING CRIMINAL !!!
That’s why they’ve sicced their legal attack dogs on Brittany and others like her who, they say, are guilty of depriving the multi-billion-dollar labels of their rightful profits by eating into legitimate sales.
How do these criminals achieve that? By sharing music with each other. And every time they do that, the Big 4 claim, a sale is lost.
Think about that for more than 10 seconds and you can see it’s a ludicrous assertion, as even chief United States judge James P. Jones has agreed. But the Big 4 have been able to promote that idea for six long years, using it to inflict domestic violence on Americans, including children, who haven’t done anything wrong.
Young children.
In RIAA punishes Brittany for resisting, “They’re nasty,” I say. “They’re vicious. They’re hookers working for the RIAA,” going on:
“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.”
So let’s make sure they don’t have to stand alone any longer by contributing to a fund which’ll not only help Brittany and her Dad meet the RIAA on an equal footing, but be the beginning of a collection which help other people who are being similarly victimised in the name of corporate profits.
This isn’t just for me …
I’ll make a commitment to contribute the first $100. If you’ll follow suit with whatever you can afford —- $1, $2, $10, it’ll all count —- we can make this happen, as we did with, and for, Patti Santangelo.
“If you’re a Christian, December 22 is a mere three days before Christmas, the season of good will and good cheer,” I wrote in 2005, continuing »»»
And even if you’re not, it heralds a holiday, a time to kick back and give and receive presents and generally relax and have fun.
Unless you’re Organized Music, Sony BMG, Vivendi Universal, EMI or Warner Music, the Hard-Core Big Four corporate record labels, that is. Because there’s certainly no goodwill or good cheer there.
And unless you’re Patricia Santangelo, the New York mother who epitomizes the 17,000 or so Americans who have so far been victimized by the Big Four, and all in the name of the bottom line.
On December 22, she’ll be stand alone and unrepresented in a New York court for an “In Person” conference with judge Mark D. Fox in Elektra v Santangelo — or, more properly, Patti Santangelo versus the Elektra Entertainment Group, Virgin Record America, UMG Recordings, BMG Music and the disgraced Sony BMG Music Entertainment company.
This morning , “Patti is resolved, is she?” – my wife asked. “Yes,” I said. “She knows exactly what she’s letting herself in for. She knows about Cecilia Gonzalez.” And she also knew about Brittany Chan, a 14-year-old scgoolgirl, and Tanya Andersen, a disabled mother living on a disability pension who’ve also been singled out by the cartel for special treatment.
“It’s terrible, really, having to think of this just before Christmas,” says Patti. “It’s exhausting to have to be thinking and worry about this at any time of the year, but just before Christmas?”
But as she also told p2pnet today, “This isn’t just for me. It’s for all those other people as well.”
p2pnet readers donated more than $15,000 so Patti could pay for legal expenses and disbursements.
Another RIAA victim, Joel Tenenbaum, has famous Harvard law professor Charles Nesson and his team of his students representing him.
Brittany and her father, Randy, have no one.
So let’s help them and at the same time, set the ball rolling for the creation of a fund which will also help others like them.
Patti’s case is now over and her lawyer, Jordan Glass, who also acted for her children, Michelle and Bobby, gave his legal services for free.
At the moment, Brittany and her father, Randy, are standing completely by themselves against Vivendi Universal (France), Sony (Japan), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US, but controlled by a Canadian), who together are the virtual owners of the (Recording Industry Association of America), as they like to call it.
If readers contribute towards legal costs, hopefully, a lawyer will volunteer her or his time to make sure the Big 4 and their RIAA fronts, Mitch Bainwol and Cary Sherman, with Cara Duckworth in the wings, and aren’t allowed to continue
And there are a few other things we can do.
For now, please just think about it.
I’ll get into specifics over the new few days.
But if you’d like to make a commitment right now, or want to help in any way, please let me know — p2pnet @ shaw dot ca.
Cheers! And thanks. And all the best …
Jon Newton – p2pnet
May, 2009
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May 4th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Tell us where to send the donations forth and the people that shall help, will help.
This is a situation where we need to help our fellow man, in the interests of others.
Yes I realize there is many things that we must fight for, but this is also one of them.
I wish the best to Brittany!
May 4th, 2009 at 10:31 am
i will add to the fund by praying for her. god can do far more good than mere money