RIAA ’sue ‘em all’ project
p2p news / p2pnet:- The People are watching!
The We’re Not Taking Any More club post has rocketed to the Number 1 spot on p2pnet’s Top Fifteen Articles All Time list with 35,568 visits beween 8:27 pm Pacific on September 17, when it went up, and 9:08 am today. That’s the fastest rise ever. And the hits are only for p2pnet. Think of all the other sites which are also posting the news that the RIAA’s ludicrous sue ‘em all campaign is down the drain.
In the Number 2 spot with 24,676 hits (9:12 am) is RIAA victim talks to p2pnet, the story on Patrician Santangelo, the first RIAA victim to stand up and say No!
Mother of 5 takes on Big Music (14,359) and RIAA ‘fines’ students $3,750 (13,817) are in the 7th and 8th spots respectively.
And in case you`re thinking, `These hits don`t count. They`re all from Google links,` think again. “Google isn’t picking this up,” observed Morg. “Any idea why?”
We’ve noticed the same thing. Nor did they pick up the Santangelo post, which is curious since they indexed far less important p2pnet stories. Stay tuned on this.
Michigan`s John Hermann is a lawyer representing Candy Chan, James and Angela Nelson and John Harless who have also decided to make Just Say No.
The RIAA is banking on the fact that no one has the guts to stand up to them. Hermann told p2pnet.
In the last year I can’t tell you how many times I have been told `You and your clients are going to loose and you will end up paying tens of thousands of dollars to us.`
Well so far, they haven’t been very accurate and when probed on the underlying basis of their claims I think they`re terrified to engage in any discovery since it will – in all probability reveal that they don`t have any credible evidence to substantiate their claims.
If you`re one of the people who took the trouble to make sure the word is getting out, good on ya because the lamescream media, which are all over it every time the Big Four record label cartel releases its latest list of victims, are almost completely ignoring the Big Music resistance story.
Meanwhile, as we post this story at 9:30 am Pacific, the We’re Not Taking Any More club hits have risen to 36,137.
More to follow ; )
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September 19th, 2005 at 7:43 pm
I think it is just when such articles come out that the average person is made aware of how carefully crafted and orcastrated the lamescream media is. It also makes one aware of just how much grease is put out by the cartels to keep it this way.
In reading between the lines, I am not the only one to come to this conclusion. Most with internet access are finding that the stories they are really interested in either have no counterpoint in lamescream or that when checking the facts on the net, the stories are extremely slanted in the presentation of that news to the public. Those that have checked have found lamescream wanting and are instead choosing to get their news from the net where it is likely they can recieve more unvarnished verisons.
Readership is down on newspapers. Surveys show that those that have internet access are spending less time in front of the tv. That means that viewership of both public and paid commercial tv is going down also. In otherwords people are discovering that commercial news and broadcast isn’t doing for them what they wish, so they are turning to the net for what they aren’t getting.
As a result of this, lamescream media is reporting blogs, making a presence on the net in hopes of snagging back some of the lost sheep that left, and the cartels are trying to use legal means to bring the internet under control of the watchful commercial world.
I rarely if ever go to national news sites, having learned this lesson of slanting news to what they wish presented and not what are strickly the facts without an ulterior motive. I can only assume that I am sort of Joe Six Pack in this and not setting any sort of trend.
September 20th, 2005 at 12:31 am
I’m the same. I didn’t realise how biased and filtered the media reports were, until i noticed how one sided things like the santangelo vs elektra were.
Infact i consider myself to be quite conservative about a great many issues. But this is just rediculous. 98% of the traditional media is like this. Only reporting issues that don’t conflict with itself.
I live in the uk, and thought the sun newspaper was quite unbiased, but my opinion of them has changed because of just this. A constant biased word for word report of what the riaa/mpaa propaganda machines pump out.
I also started to look at exactly how many of the advertisements in the paper were from these same cartel sources. And there are alot. My bet is they don’t want to upset their paying clients.
September 20th, 2005 at 1:32 am
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/09/18/1734258.shtml?tid=123&tid=99
Google picked up addict3d.org’s blurb on the slashdot story as well – http://addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=10620
September 20th, 2005 at 9:26 am
The Sun, unbiased? Bang goes your credibility.
September 20th, 2005 at 10:47 pm
Noticed the p2pnet report made it onto “The Feed” which is a segment on “The Attack of the Show” (G4/TechTV). Congrats, that’s some pretty wide coverage.
K
September 21st, 2005 at 10:47 am
My personal experience showed me how biased and sometimes, flat-out wrong the mainstream media are.
I work in a jail and see criminals all the time….and some as a result hear info directly from inmates and police and other corrections sources and I’m shocked how off-the-mark the media are many times.
Sometimes the media are not even close to the truth.
I think all people need to be very very aware of this.
Take stories on TV or radio with a bit of salt. Try to hear the same story from different sources too.
If the reporter doesn’t grasp the technical detailes, they will often get it wrong.
It’s actually kind of scarry. I’m glad my eyes are open to this now.