RIAA wants more time with Jammie and Joel
p2pnet view P2P | RIAA:- There seems to be a bit of confusion in RIAA-land these days, says Recording Industry vs The People’s Ray Beckerman.
There is? Now, what could have caused it?
Well, despite having aimed thousands of sue ‘em all notices at innocent American families the length and breadth of the country, only two cases have actually born fruit.
And they’ve both become huge embarrassments for the Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music extortion unit.
One centres on Jammie Thomas-Rasset, initially ordered to pay almost two million dollars to cover 24 digital music files she was alleged to have downloaded. However, Michael Davis, the judge who’d heard the case from the beginning, ultimately drastically reduced that amount to $54,000.
The labels themselves and then offered to cut it back even further, asking for $25,000.
However, Jammie is standing on her principles, refusing to pay.
And in the other case Boston student Joel Tenenbaum, told to find $675,000 for supposedly sharing 30 songs online, is asking for a new trial.
Now, “In both cases, the RIAA has recently asked for extensions of time,” says Beckerman, going on:
“In Thomas-Rasset they’ve asked for more time to make up their mind as to whether to accept the reduced verdict of $54,000 the judge has offered them, and in Tenenbaum they’ve twice asked for more time to prepare their papers opposing Tenenbaum’s motion for ‘remittitur’.”
Once, it was easy for the RIAA.
All they had to do was to get someone like the RIAA’s most (in)famous spokesman Cary ‘Sue’ Sherman to allege some innocent person — usually a mother with absolutely no ability to pay for an adequate legal defence – was a ‘massive illegal distributor’ of copyrighted music, and the mainstream media did the rest, publicly dragging the victim through the mud on behalf of Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music.
Not any more, however.
SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum second RIAA request for extension of time to answer remittitur motion
Stay tuned.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Recording Industry vs The People – RIAA asks for extensions of time in Tenenbaum & in Thomas-Rasset cases, January 28, 2010
refusing to pay – ‘We’ll settle for $25,000′ RIAA tells Jammie, January 27, 2010
new trial – DoJ opposes Tenenbaum bid for new trial, January 20, 2010
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January 29th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Fuck them. Reap what you sow ‘AAs! No surrender until the constitutional issues are resolved once and for all.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
Let’s hope these corporate pigs land from the frying pan into the actual fire. Turn them into bacon!
January 29th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Just pay these parasites with bullets.