RIAA sues more students
p2pnet.net News:- The entertainment industry’s, “Joint Committee of the Higher Education and Entertainment Communities [JCHEEC], “has submitted a report to the U.S. Congress outlining the progress made during the past academic year to address illegal file sharing on college campuses,” said PennState Live recently.
It also points out that Penn State president Graham Spanier co-chairs the committee with Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America).
“I have been pleased with the great progress made by the higher education community in addressing piracy on our campuses,” it quotes Spanier as saying. “We are seeing some creative and responsive initiatives while at the same time educating our students about intellectual property.”
Educating students. Right.
Thirty-two individuals at 26 schools were among the latest victims of the RIAA’s non-stop onslaught against people who share music online.
It wants to nail another 762 people in its relentless bid to use the legal system to force them to buy ‘product’ owned by its masters, the members of the Big Four record label cartel, only one of which has a US presence.
Sherman recently told the Hollywood Reporter that lawsuits brought against university students are designed to emphasize the consequences of illegal downloading and encourage them to seek out legal downloading networks.
Guess who backs and supplies these, “legal downloading networks’?
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See:-
JCHEEC – University p2p ‘report’, p2pnet, August 25, 2004
PennState Live – Report outlines efforts to address illegal file sharing on college campuses
26 schools – Recording Industry Sues 32 Students For Illegal File-Sharing, MTV, October 1, 2004
buy ‘product’ – RIAA sues another 762, p2pnet, October 1, 2004
October 4th, 2004 at 9:07 pm
Who’s going to be the first person to step up to the bat and nail these suckers with the RICO act? It’s large scale extortion! The settlement is nothing more than protection money, something that the mafia can’t get away with. And to be honest, I respect the mafia a whole lot more than the RIAA. At least the mafia doesn’t pretend to be the good guys…just the goodfellas…
-Nev
October 4th, 2004 at 9:41 pm
it has been done already….see
http://techlawadvisor.com/2004/02/nj-first-rico-claim-against-riaa-not.html
and
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/02/19/mom_sues_riaa_members/
unfortunately
“In RICO cases the threat or use of physical violence has to be explicit. Legal experts say the case has little chance of reaching a jury trial.”