p2pnet RIAA Special, 7
I’m re-publishing a number of p2pnet stories highlighting RIAA depredations against Big 4 customers. And lest we forget: it’s easy to see these crimes against ordinary people, including young children, as being perpetrated by faceless corporations.
However, highly intelligent, highly educated men and women such as Jay Berman, Hilary Rosen, Cary Sherman, Amy Weiss, Jenny Engebretsen, Cara Duckworth and Jonathan Lamy, all of whom have been, or still are, dedicated RIAA troopers, have been knowingly and deliberately using the mainstream media to people they knew full well were innocent to public ridicule and embarrassment accusing them, without a shred of evidence, of being “massive online distributors of copyrighted music”.
I believe some 40,000 people were victimised in this way.
Only two ultimately reached the US civil court system, but the primary objective had been achieved:
* Create a climate of terror under which to operate a bizarre marketing campaign.
Remember: all of these atrocities — because that’s exactly what they are — were carried out in the names of artists the labels have under contract, and “rights holders”, ie, the major labels, or one of more of their scores of subsidiaries.
Thanks and Cheers!
Jon Newton – p2pnet
p2pnet news view | Kids & Kartels:- The mainstream media are beginning to pick up on the Kylee Andersen travesty.
That’s Kylee the Kopyright Kriminal on the right. You can tell just from looking at her that she’s out to do ill to Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG.
Having accused her mother, Tanya, of being an illicit online music distributor, the Big 4 music cartel wanted their RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) lawyers to grill 10-year-old Kylee. Face-to-face.
Was the idea to try to get information from her so they could use it against her mother? Or are they going to claim Kylee herself is another of those “massive online distributors of copyrighted music” who are, according to the multi-billion-dollar Big 4, “devastating” the corporate music industry?
After all, Kylee was seven when the RIAA first zeroed in on her mother, who’s disabled and who gets by on a pension. And as every online criminal and thief knows, seven is the perfect age to start as an illegal music distributor.
Judge Donald Ashmanskas partially spiked the RIAA’s guns, ruling it can speak with Kylee, but at her home, and by telephone only.
But even that’s a farce. The RIAA shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near Kylee, by phone or by any other means.
In USA Today’s Tech Space, “The RIAA is now attempting to depose 10-year-olds,” notes Angela Gunn, going on:
Seriously, the music industry wants to put a ten-year-old girl under oath to be grilled by lawyers. Most of us would be creeped out at the thought of our favorite ten-year-olds spending grownup-type time with their favorite music stars, much less with those stars’ lawyers – are we comfortable as a society with the thought of some piece of juris doctor interrogating little girls? Isn’t that, like, a Dateline NBC special in the making?
The Kylee case is bad, but it’s nothing new. Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG have been using their RIAA-like units trampling on the rights of their own customers in North America and abroad for years. And we let them get away with it, somehow forgetting we don’t depend on them, they depend on us.
“This has been going on now for two and a half years and has turned my life upside down,” Tanya Andersen told me recently. “It continues to be a huge source of stress and chaos in my life. I certainly don’t feel like a free human being at this point because it just continues to go on and on–it doesn’t seem to matter what proof I give them or what questions I’ve answered for them.”
It’s almost the end of March, designated Boycott the RIAA month. So how about extending that into April? And then May? And then …..
There’s a ton of excellent and affordable non-corporate music online.
You don’t need the Big 4 for that.
JN
Also See:
Kylee Andersen travesty – RIAA vs Kylee Andersen, 10, March 27, 2007
partially spiked – RIAA loses in Kylee case, March 27, 2007
Tech Space – They’re coming for your kids, March 27, 2007
Boycott the RIAA month – It’s March. So Boycott the RIAA!, March 27, 2007
..… and identi.ca
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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February, 2010
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