Big Music: cold and ruthless
p2p news / p2pnet: The Big Four record labels are cold. Cold and ruthless.
"After a girl’s brother was killed in gang violence, she inherited his laptop," says the Tartan Online, Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper, quoting lawyer Charles Mudd.
Before she’d ever used the computer, her brother had downloaded songs with the usual suspect, Kazaa, and the girl, Mudd’s client, “took the computer to college with her, where she was then subpoenaed for the songs that had been previously downloaded.
“Even with a death certificate, the RIAA would not drop the suit.”
Mudd was one of the panelists in a public debate on Electronic File Sharing hosted by the University of Pittsburgh last Friday, says the story.
For its Computer Science Day, the university invited two experts to work with two undergraduate debate all-stars and, "The event was legitimized by the participation of Geoffrey L. Beauchamp, an attorney for the RIAA’s own law counseling firm, Conrad O’Brien Gellman & Rohn, and Charles Lee Mudd, president of the Charles Mudd Law Offices, which has represented several defendants in file-sharing lawsuits."
(Thanks, Alex H)
Also See:
Tartan Online – Panel discusses RIAA, February 20, 2006
