Anybody else get a coupon for 2 free rentals from blockbuster from a lawsuit they never knew they were apart of? well the law firm got $16 million in cash.

Ever hear of Death Row Records?

For the cor-pirate greed
By the co-pirate greed
Because of cor-pirate greed!!

For the cor-pirate greed
By the co-pirate greed
Because of cor-pirate greed!!

You fail to understand, the abuse is constant and the abusers are judges who are also lawyers, in criminal cases, the acusers, who are also lawyers and litigants, who are also lwayers.

The conclusion is that lawyers must clean the house or go down as dirty rotten scoundrels. If you are one of the rare decent lawyers, quit or openly work for a revolution in the mockery legal system.

The RIAA are pirates that have been acting illegally for years. They steal artists money, as well as customers money with their (proven in court), by price fixing, destroying competition, trying to make any technology advances that always wind up making them a lot of money since the Reel to Reel tape drive was released.
They said it would destroy the record business. They said the same for audio cassettes. Who here knows that the stealing pirates receive 1 dollar for ever blank cassette sold. They excuse was that they would use this to compensate artists for the losses the would occur (and of course never did), due to drops in record sales.

The are always in the process of screwing libraries as well and use millions to buy and sell congressman.

Are part of a huge payola scandle that it took a DA of New York state to have the guts to investigate. He handed the information over to the feds and the New Attorney General of the U.S. has done nothing to go after the RIAA companies and will not unless pressure is put on him as well as the FCC.
BUT …the Attorney General instead of looking to enforce the law of the land, investigate illegal actions, is obsessed with “decency laws”. I don’t think the feds have ever gotten over the 1 second peek at Janet Jackson’s artificially filled breast.

They have increased the cost of Internet vendors fees due to their amazing buying of the government to FORCE Internet vendors to enforce their stupid laws. A ISP HAS to look up and give the RIAA the full information for any customer they ask for.
I mean I could understand if we are talking about children’s porno rings, terrorist attacks, plans on how to make a atomic weapon and drop on a country, but for listening to MUSIC !!

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051004-5382.html

Maybe things are about to get “interesting” for the cartels very soon now.

It is no longer the government of the people. America has become like the rest of the world. It will take a few more years before we become as poor as many in foreign countries, but if we continue on the course we are going, it WILL happen. I would consider leaving, but where could I go? Nowhere. It is pretty much corrupt all over the world. I can’t blame the Iraqis who do not want our Democracy, I don’t want it either. I want our Republic back. America used to be a shining light to all peoples, but now, it is a nation most hated around much of the world.

Why? look at our media. It portrays Americans as murderous sleasebags who fuck at the drop of a hat. Look at our corporations as well as our politicians who support and prop up despotic governments just so that they can milk the enslaved population of its labor without proper pay. Look at the arrogant self-serving people who go about the world telling everyone what good things we are doing. Yes, our people in the armed forces try to help people and most are good people, however, most people do not get to see that side of Americans due to the corrupt media cartels and the government under their control. What is destroying this country are the corrupt Democrat-Republican lawmakers, presidents (not just Bush, but also Clinton and many others), judges, and their corporate paymasters.

We can start turning America around if only we in America would be smart enough to stop voting for members of the Democrat-Republican party (i.e. the lessor of two evils) and start looking at candidate from other political parties. This will happen only if people advertised such political parties to their friends and try to get them to ignore all the corporate-sponsor campaigns fo the corrupt politicians. It will happen when jury members learn about the Constitution and follow this formost when deciding someones guilt or innocence regardless of the judge’s instructions. See http://www.fija.org . The job of a juror is to protect the rights of the innocent as well as keep the power of government in check, not to blindly follow the instructions of some judge. WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE OUR FREEDOM BACK. THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT GOING TO LET GO OF IT WILLINGLY!!

I know of an innocent man who might very well spend the rest of his life in a prison cell because his attorney keeps telling him that he needs more and more money or else he would not be able to give him a proper defence. The attorney has already said it would cost him about $20,000 total. The total paid is now about 27,000, and the attorney wants even more.

I have seen the insides of a court room for a traffic ticket that I did not deserve, and was of course found guilty and had to pay a steep fine. I have been injured in a car accident where I was hit from behind. It was the other person’s fault. About 10 days later I get a phone call from a personal injury lawyer who wanted me to sue the kid who hit me. I had a doctor friend who lost a patient. He is now in bankrupcy because the attorney took him for everything he had. The doctor tried to do good for people and only charged $10 a visit. He lived in a small bricj home with his wife down the road from my house.

Yes, there are good lawyers. However, it must be hard for them seeing what goes on each day in the courtrooms. I APOLOGIZE to all the good ones. However I will put it this way when you are around dogs, you will catch fleas, no matter how good a person you may be.

Yep but youre very much in the minority

Extorting money through threats? Continuing collections and filing a baseless suit after admitting that she didn’t download? This is legal? Further, after filing suit knowing that she had done no wrong, RIAA is subject to Rule 11 violations which means they’ll have to pay for the attorneys fees. And what about the spybots they used. That is not legal. They’ve arrested people for that.

Maybe you should read the complaint again. And the Oregon version of RICCO.

It is people like you who are a problem and spread hatred against all lawyers as a group. Your comments and those of others like you cause people to distrust lawyers and avoid lawyers in their hour of need. Fortunately, some are finding counsel and fighting back including Ms. Anderson and others that you can read about at http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2005/10/oregon-riaa-victim-fights-back-sues.html.

A better focus for your haphazard hatred would be to target those companies and lawyers, like the RIAA group, who abuse the judicial system in this country to extort money from innocent bystanders like Ms. Andersen and many other RIAA defendants. Please, let’s turn this around on them, not making it a battle against lawyers and the judicial system, but against those who abuse it.