F*ck me in the RIAAss!

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

Question for anyone whos a laywer:
so say you DO partake in copyright infringement. Is it legal for the plaintiff to purposefully drag out the court trial long enough that you go bankrupt, so that you are pretty much forced into paying the settlement?

Isn't that extortion?

The federal courts are very specific with respect to the type and amount of discovery that a party can request. The court sets a very specific case management order with timelines leading to a trial date that again, the court sets. You are not going to get very far with that argument when the plaintiff follows the court's order to the letter -- which they will.

The average guy living with mom simply can't afford to pay attorneys to go through the most basic litigation in federal court, but that doesn't make bringing the claim illegal.

 

[AllStar1500bd 5,000+ posts]

Did they find any of your beastiliaty pr0nz?

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

Remember this is the RIAA, they have sued the dead and told a college student to drop out, get a job, and pay up. They just don't give a fuk. They are loc'ed like that.

 

[pitbull12887 10+ year member]

Dad got caught using illegal satelite cards a few years back. They wanted like $5000 and he sent them $500 and they didnt say anything else about it.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

overall, your rights when it comes to copyright issues have been completely eroded in the last 10+ years.

It's not surprising these giant trade groups like the RIAA and MPAA have been able to buy legislation, but it is disappointing.

 

[T9X 10+ year member]

Did they find any of your beastiliaty pr0nz?

Nope.

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

DMCA has basically taken our rights when it comes to any sort of digital media, ****ing lobbyists.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

"An MIT student accused of copyright infringement has been documenting her struggles with the RIAA. Upon trying to negotiate her settlement, a representative told her that "the RIAA has been known to suggest that students drop out of college or go to community college in order to be able to afford settlements.""

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/05/1421254&from=rss

 

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

To the OP -- have you considered not discussing what you have done on a public interweb forum?

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

Death is no obstacle to feeling the long arm of the Recording Industry ***. of America.

Lawyers representing several record companies have filed suit against an 83 year-old woman who died in December, claiming that she made more than 700 songs available on the internet.

"I believe that if music companies are going to set examples they need to do it to appropriate people and not dead people," Robin Chianumba told AP. "I am pretty sure she is not going to leave Greenwood Memorial Park to attend the hearing."

Gertrude Walton, who lived in Beckley, West Virginia hated computers, too, her daughter adds.

However the RIAA's embarrassment doesn't end there. Chianumba said that she had sent a copy of her mother's death certificate to record company lawyers in response to an initial warning letter, over a week before the suit was filed. In 2003 the RIAA sued a twelve year-old girl for copyright infringement. She'd harbored an MP3 file of her favorite TV show on her hard drive. Her working class parents in a housing project in New York were forced to pay two thousand dollars in a settlement.

You can't be too young to face the consequences of being social, it seems. Only the unborn, it seems, have yet to receive an infringement suit.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/05/riaa_sues_the_dead/

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/05/riaa_sues_the_dead/

How about culling all of the articles and putting them in one post instead of your moronic attempt to increase post count?

 

[T9X 10+ year member]

To the OP -- have you considered not discussing what you have done on a public interweb forum?

What does it matter? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

What does it matter? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

Well, considering you just admitted to pirating these songs to the entire world, good luck fighting it.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

How about culling all of the articles and putting them in one post instead of your moronic attempt to increase post count?

How about you lick my taint mr smarty pants?

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

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