‘RIAA drops student lawsuits’ post
p2p news / p2pnet: The members of the Big Four Organized Music gang have dropped 750 lawsuits against students in the US, says The Inquirer.
Would that it were accurate, but sadly, it isn’t.
“The Music industrial complex has dropped over 750 lawsuits against students at Drexel University, Harvard and the University of Southern California,” says the post. “The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) gave no reason for dropping the cases. It sued 7,000 this year.”
The story points to another in internetnews.com with Merry Christmas From The RIAA as the header, and which kicks off:
“The music industry dropped 751 copyright-infringement lawsuits in the mail today, bringing the total number of legal actions this year against alleged peer-to-peer (P2P) infringers to more than 7,000.”
We saw the same internetnews.com item when we were scanning for news yesterday and in fact it prompted our post.
It wasn’t true this time but the way things are going for Sonty BMG, Vivendi Universal, Warner Music and EMI, this could change.
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Also read:-
The Inquirer – Music industry drops lawsuits, December 16, 2005
internetnews.com – Merry Christmas From The RIA, December 15, 2005
our post – Happy Christmas from the RIAA, December 15, 2005
December 17th, 2005 at 12:57 am
Jon, I had a giggle at this when it was first posted. Goes to show that the Inquirer editors are clueless. I’ve stopped taking anything I see there seriously a long time ago.
December 17th, 2005 at 1:20 am
Hey Spike. Howzit going down your way? Bloody cold here, but sunny : )
Cheers!
December 17th, 2005 at 2:55 am
Hey,
It’s been Snowing here alot, pretty cold here too.
Pretty christmasy tho. Hehe
December 17th, 2005 at 2:58 am
Either way, Hell would have the same weather as we do right now when the RIAA willingly decides to drop any lawsuits on their own will.
December 17th, 2005 at 7:12 am
OMG! The riaa has dropped students??? And now they’re being sued about it!!
Well of course they should be sued! What the hell were they doing to those poor students when they were dropped! How high up were they? Are any of them hurt?
Why wasn’t this on the news? Lousy lamescream media! They’re probly afraid to say anything about it in case they get dropped too!!
December 17th, 2005 at 7:37 am
You need something better than grade school English to become an editor, right?
December 17th, 2005 at 10:07 am
You mean they DID drop the lawusits and the students do not have to worry any more? I cannot read it in another way. English is not my language and if I am wrong please explain —– Masha
December 17th, 2005 at 4:42 pm
Masha, the whole think does not make any sense, as the previous poster has already ponted out. So, don’t worry, it is not YOUR English this time:-)
December 17th, 2005 at 5:22 pm
Hi Masha:
I take it you mean you couldn’t read The Inquirer article any other way? That’s what it says, alright. So there’s nothing wrong with your English (which has always been pretty good as far as I can recall : )
However, no lawsuits have been dropped: the students, and everyone else on the RIAA hit list, are still being victimized.
Cheers!
December 17th, 2005 at 7:18 pm
No, the post at p2pnet has some language problems. I had to scratch my head at this one.
December 18th, 2005 at 5:51 am
“Goes to show that the Inquirer editors are clueless.”
Interesting timing for me. I’ve been using their site for a long time, and currently have them as an RSS subscription. For the past week or so I’ve been seriously considering dropping them for good. They used to be a pretty decent site for news, but the quality over the past year or so hasn’t really been all that great. It’s basically devolved in nature overall I think. They seem to spend a great deal of effort trying to impress people with how witty and clever they are with their headlines. Are they trying to be humerous perhaps? Well whatever the reason, it mostly just makes it hard to tell what most of the articles are actually about and worth clicking on to read. The content itself feels immature most of the time too, especially since much of the word play tends to amount to nothing more than petty name calling more often than not. Not sure if that is their intent but it’s the way they come across to me, and perhaps slightly bitter too as well. Hardly what I would call worthy new reporting, and I just find it too damn hard to take them serious anymore. I think this p2pnet post just decided me once and for all, especially when there are so many other good feeds out there and my time is limited and precious… or perhaps I jsut don’t share their sense of humor (or have one lol).
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Bye bye Inquirer.