Pay $675,000 in full ! – RIAA tells Joel
p2pnet view P2P | RIAA:- Matt ‘The Dentist’ Oppenheim is among a raft of high-priced RIAA attack lawyers hired to try to make sure Boston student Joel Tenenbaum pays every penny of $675,000 he’s said to owe for sharing 30 digital music files online.
A jury “heard evidence demonstrating that Tenenbaum willfully infringed Plaintiffs’ copyrights in thirty sound recordings by downloading them and distributing them to millions of other users on KaZaA, that he downloaded and distributed thousands of additional sound recordings — many of them belonging to Plaintiffs — on multiple P2P networks, that he intentionally seeded these networks with new copies of works, that he engaged in this conduct for nearly ten years with full knowledge that it was illegal and despite repeated warnings to stop, that he continued to infringe even during the course of the lawsuit, and that he perjured himself and concealed material evidence of his infringement” say Oppenheim et al.
They say $22,500 per song is therefore “more than” justified.
$22,500 per song !!!!!!!!
Joel recently filed for a new trial, said p2pnet recently, going on >>>
And the US Department of Justice [read the RIAA] doesn’t like it.
In SONY BMG Music Entertainment v Tenenbaum, the DoJ has filed a brief opposing Joel’s motion to set aside the verdict on constitutional grounds, says Recording Industry vs The People.
The DoJ now boasts and eye-popping number of people who worked for, and/or are directly connected with, Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s RIAA.
If there was any justice, the motion would be kicked out on that basis alone.
But …
The DoJ clearly agrees with Big Music that the songs below are worth a grand total of $675,000.
Now, in Sony BMG Music Entertainment v Tenenbaum, “the RIAA has filed its opposition papers”, says Beckerman in Recording Industry vs The People, adding:
“As is their habit, and as their friends at the Department of Justice did as well, the RIAA’s lawyers have ignored
- (a) all but one of the leading cases,
- (b) all of the leading law review articles and other scholarship, and
- (c) the actual contents of the Supreme Court’s decisions.
“Fortunately these are contained in the amicus curiae brief we filed last year on behalf of the Free Software Foundation.”
Stay tuned.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
‘The Dentist’ – RIAA’s Matt Oppenheim: the bad penny?, November 14, 2007
filed for a new trial – Joel Tenenbaum files for new trial, January 4, 2010
p2pnet – DoJ opposes Tenenbaum bid for new trial, January 19, 2010
Recording Industry vs The People – Dept of Justice files brief opposing motion to set aside verdict in Tenenbaum, , January 19, 2010
Recording Industry vs The People – RIAA opposes Tenenbaum’s motion for remittitur, February 8, 2010
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February 9th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
If I was Joel there is no way the corporation of parasites will ever see even one penny from me and I will advertise that.
With a justice like this the corrupted criminals at the DOJ can role their law books and fuck themselves with that until the citizen storm the place.
We can not afford parasites in our societies. Sorry.
February 9th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
The words “Cruel and unusual punishment” come to mind…
February 11th, 2010 at 5:56 am
Or.
Knowing he’s completely fucked, he could do some good on his way out. Nothing says “fuck you” like a rife bullet traveling at over 2,000 fps. I’d be willing to bet it wouldn’t be too hard to get the schedules of the big 4’s top guys.
Once you back somone into a corner, your taking away their freedom. And now, he doesn’t have much to lose.
February 11th, 2010 at 7:36 pm
Chapter 7!