745 new RIAA p2p victims
p2p news / p2pnet: It`s been proven over and over again. Big Four record label cartel file sharing subpoenas are achieving absolutely nothing except to cause terrible grief to men women, and even young children.
A recent victim is a 42-year-old unemployed disabled mother, Tanya Andersen, who’s counter-suing the cartel under the RICO Act, normally used to prosecute major crime gangs. Another is Britanny Chan, a 14-year-old Michigan school-girl.
Yet the labels have fired off 745 more subpoenas dressed up as `lawsuits` in their relentless and futile sue `em all marketing campaign, bringing the total to close to 16,000.
Through their RIAA, they give the impression there have been thousands of successful `prosecutions,` turning the Innocent until proven Guilty cornerstone of US law into a mockery because not one of the 16,000 victims has ever appeared before a judge.
With an estimated 61 million people sharing on the p2p networks in the US alone, the number of people victimized by the Organized Music family, EMI Group (UK), Sony BMG (Japan, Germany), Warner Music (US) and Vivendi Universal (France) doesn`t register.
However, `16,000` generates excellent headlines for the mainstream media, who continue to ignore the fact that more and more people are refusing to cave in to cartel attempts to blackmail them into buying over-priced, lack-luster `product`.
Organized Music`s RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has been singling out universities, claiming Internet2 is allowing students to grab more files at faster download rates.
It recently joined Internet2 to, study advanced content distribution technologies.
It did indeed, so it could use the results to pillory even more students.
Meanwhile, the first annual p2p litigation summit will be held at the Chicago Northwestern University Law School on November 3.
In September, 2003, the Recording Association of America filed the first wave of lawsuits against individual p2p file sharers, says the registration site, going on:
“Two years and 14,000 lawsuits later, both P2P file-sharing and file-sharing litigation continue unabated, and members of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) are now suing individual and Internet users as well. It’s time to step back and consider where this litigation has been, where it’s going, and whether there is a better way. This one-day conference will cover these salient legal issues.”
Finally, do these pointless and bloody-minded Big Music farces disgust you as much as they disgust us? Yeh? You may be able to help.
Stay tuned.
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- Mohandas Gandhi
Tired of being treated like a criminal? They depend on you, not the other way around. Don’t buy their ‘product’. Do bug your local political representatives. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, faxes, IM, stop them in the street, blog. And if you’re into organizing, organize petitions, organize demonstrations and then turn up on your local political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance.
See:-
major crime gangs – Victim sues RIAA under RICO Act, October 2, 2005
school-girl – Big Music wants Britanny Chan, September 27, 2005
refusing to cave in – The ‘We’re Not Taking Any More’ club, September 17, 2005
advanced content – RIAA, MPAA, penetrate Internet2, September 10, 2005
may be able to help – Wanted: p2p tech experts, October 24, 2005
October 27th, 2005 at 8:34 pm
i saw a commercial for david spades show and it looks like he does a joke in the classroom with children and throws them in jail for sharing cds… looks funny, probably the first attempt at humorizing the situation on cable tv that ive seen.
October 28th, 2005 at 2:12 pm
America “leaderes” should be ashamed of themselves. While the corporate world is a snake den of corruption (example: the massive, corporate, everyone-does-it, oil-for-food kickbacks in Irak), normal decent people are being sued by the snakes that work at that other snake den, the courts.
America’s “leadership” should also be ashamed for setting up all these traps where decent, common people fall. Look at what Marten Mickos, CEO, MySQL AB wrote recently about software patents:
“Or are you saying that a 15-year old who develops a great software algorithm at home should do a patent search (among tens of thousands of patents) to verify that he/she is not infringing?”
Software patents (BTW, a huge legal mess) are really a cloaked extension of copyright that also act as a trap because the law is beyond the understanding of a common persons that may decide to do a program that will lead the person to bankrupcy if the program is distributed, even for free, and the person is sued by that other cartel, the Business software Alliance. Just as what may happen to a person who buys blank cd’s and give the blank cd the logical use of copying a cd. Or just as happens when a 15 year old sees an opportunity to download a liked song. The natural thing is to download a song, not to investigate first the legal ramifications of the act and to search the copyright status of the song (an impossible task, BTW).
Shame on you, America’s “leadership”, for turning against your own people. Also for being followers of the cartels instead of leaders.
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com
October 29th, 2005 at 5:21 am
I guess the top execs of the cartel only ask their lawyers if they should continue filing John Doe after John Doe lawsuits against their customer base.
Like asking a junkie if he should look for some more crack.
October 30th, 2005 at 5:04 am
Confucius say: Man who screw customers soon have no customers to screw.