Another RIAA victim fights back
p2pnet / p2p News:- Two people are now fighting the Big Four record label cartel. And more may be coming.
We’ve been covering the story of Patricia Santangelo since day one, and we’ve just learned Dawnell Leadbetter, a Seattle-area mother of two teenaged children, is also denying infringing record label copyrights, her lawyers having filed an answer refuting the allegations in the RIAA complaint.
If Leadbetter’s name seems familiar, she’s the Comcast subscriber who’s suing the company for disclosing her name and contact information.
The cartel’s Settlement Support Center LLC, “was using information that the Recording Industry of Association of America (RIAA) had obtained in a Philadelphia lawsuit over the illegal sharing of digital music files,” Lory Lybeck, the lawyer representing Leadbetter, is quoted as saying by Reclaim the Media.
“But no court authorized Comcast to release names and addresses of its customers, or notified his client that her information had been given to an outside party.”
Meanwhile, the difference between the Leadbetter and Santangelo cases is Leadbetter started off by filing an answer, while Santangelo’s lawyers, Beldock Levine & Hoffman, began by filing a pre-answer motion.
Are there other cases out there in which an answer has been filed, some of which may have been settled, some of which are probably still pending?
And if there are, might they at some point become similar, albeit post-answer, motions addressing the insufficiencies in the RIAA’s Pay US Or Else boilerplate?
Stay tuned.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win
- Mohandas Gandhi
See:-
Patricia Santangelo – RIAA victim talks to p2pnet, September 4, 2005
seems familiar – Comcast sued by RIAA victim, April 15, 2005
September 9th, 2005 at 6:08 pm
When one bee stings, the other join in. Thank Jon and the likes of him for spreading the word. It looks like the fight is on.
September 9th, 2005 at 6:58 pm
Let’s hope more and more people stand up to the RIAA / MPAA’s illegal tactics.. yes, illegal tactics! (think about that).
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win
- Mohandas Gandhi
That’s great news… Soon the snowball will start rolling down the hill, and gaining massive momentum in the process!
September 9th, 2005 at 7:23 pm
This is good news. Why has it taken so many years to happen? Not complaining, just a curiosity.
September 10th, 2005 at 11:59 am
what’s the difference between an answer and a pre-answer?
September 11th, 2005 at 5:26 am
Is that where you stall for time while you quickly try to think of the answer?
September 12th, 2005 at 3:15 am
And when they win (David), big music (Goliath) will once again have their heads removed from their asses and handed to them on a silver platter.
Big Music adjectives: egocentric, controlling, passe, old school, stodgy, rigid (too much for their own good. They could make so much money if they took the initiative instead of fighting the masses), stupid, schmucks.