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RIAA, extortion, and conspiracy, in the same sentence
Finally someone, more specifically Ms. Del Cid has filed counterclaims against the RIAA under Florida, California, and Federal law. She's tired of the RIAA's nonsense and decided to uphold her right to defend herself and ultimately others, if this case turns out right.The claims Ms. Cid is bringing against the RIAA are of Trespass, Computer Fraud and Abuse, Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices, Civil Extortion, and Civil conspiracy. Now we're talking. The RIAA has been terrorizing many people who they knew didn't have anything to do with alleged copyright violations, including dead people, young children, and the elderly. Ms Cid's counterclaim aims to prove exactly that the RIAA used questionable means to obtain what they refer to as evidence.
Who knows if it will slow down or bring any real resolution to the tyranny of the ridiculous, but here's crossing our fingers that it moves things in the right direction.
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John said 12:24PM on 6-06-2007
Good for her. The RIAA is often barking up the wrong tree; the record industry has suffered more from a) used CD shops, b) the video game industry, c) ridiculous CD prices (remember how when CDs came out they said that prices would eventually drop down to match cassettes/vinyl...and they never did?!), and d) crappy music (with few exceptions, most decent music I've found tends to come from non-US independant labels, of course this is just my opinion!). Plus, now people are discovering file-sharing applications that encrypt exchanges (see http://www.gigatribe.com for example), so it will be increasingly hard to track down file-sharers.
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Mugen said 3:10PM on 6-16-2007
I am glad that someone is finally standing up for the little people.
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Anthony Staines said 4:54PM on 6-18-2007
Paul Birch, apparently a board member of the IFPI, the UK version of the RIAA, is threatening a British academic, Andrew Dubber, who blogs at http://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/06/14/an-ifpi-bpi-board-member-writes/
for daring to link to your site.
In particular he is threatened with dismissal, and bankruptcy. This threat of course ensures that far more people will read this page than would otherwise have done so.
I'm not quite clear what the IFPI gets out of this, but I'm sure it makes them feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
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Anthony Staines said 4:51PM on 6-18-2007
Paul Birch, apparently a board member of the IFPI, the UK version of the RIAA, is threatening a British academic, Andrew Dubber, who blogs at http://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/06/14/an-ifpi-bpi-board-member-writes/
for daring to link to your site.
In particular he is threatened with dismissal, and bankruptcy. This threat of course ensures that far more people will read this page than would otherwise have done so.
I'm not quite clear what the IFPI gets out of this, but I'm sure it makes them feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
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Ryan Carter said 4:59PM on 6-18-2007
I know that this whole thing is leading to our site, and I am glad that Andrew Dubber reads our site here, but it is unfortunate that anyone would threaten him such non-sense when clearly Mr. Dubber is within his rights to link to something on the web, even if it is of a negative nature.
Who died and made the RIAA/BPI/IFPI God? Last I checked he's still making sure it rains on occasion. Mr. Birch, we are still waiting on your response, kthxbye.
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John said 7:33PM on 6-18-2007
An article about the RIAA being sued for acting like an organised criminal syndicate is threatened with kneecapping and concrete shoes by.. the RIAA. Way to go guys, you look more like extorting criminals now than ever before.
Go directly to Jail, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
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Adam said 11:56PM on 6-18-2007
Anthony Staines that's hardly fair. Re-read Mr. Birch's emails again. I don't even see a threat there at all, he is just asking him to remove the link. But he absolutely does not threaten to have him dismissed from his position or to cause him to go bankrupt. He was clearly talking about the victims of P2P lawsuits when he mentions going bankrupt...but his whole point was that he believes these people are bringing it upon themselves. And when he talks about people losing their jobs he is talking about people in the recording industry.
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Tricia said 10:49AM on 6-20-2007
Adam - no he isn't talking about the music industry, he is clearly referring to the University being bankrupted by a lawsuit and staff all losing their jobs.
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Tricia said 2:32AM on 7-10-2007
A complaint is pending about this article and the NMS board....
http://thestirrer.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2007-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z&updated-max=2008-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z&max-results=50
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