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RIAA Not Done With Jesse Jordan
digime writes "In a recent Slashdot article it was reported that 19-year-old college student Jesse Jordan gave up his life savings to the RIAA for running a campus search engine. He has recovered over 83% of his savings lost to the RIAA, and his search engine is back up. "The RIAA started yelling and tried to rescind my order of dismissal after they signed it because of comments that I made on CNN.", Jordan says on his site. "A very well-known top lawyer at the RIAA, while making threats of further legal actions, referred to himself as a 'dentist' that I would not want to 'have another visit with'"
Stick it to the man!
...so you can lose all your money again.
I think it is time for someone to pull the RIAA's teeth
1) Get sued for $12k
2) People donate money
3) Get sued again for $90b
4) People donate hella money
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5) Profit?
A very well-known top lawyer at the RIAA, while making threats of further legal actions, referred to himself as a 'dentist' that I would not want to 'have another visit with'
So wait a minute... dentists are supposed to be the ones working for you. So, it seems to me that he's saying he's not the kind of guy you'd want to hire twice. Nevertheless, his comment sounds a lot like this:
Booga booga booga!
http://mediagoblin.org/
A dentist? Like in Cryptonomicon? Uh oh...
The search engine that's up right now looks to be him thumbing his nose at the RIAA. Try doing a search for "Metallica" or "Linkin" (or other popular band names) and take a look at the results. Searching for "linux" also produces amusing output.
I approve. Very nice way to show that he's not intimidated by their legal protection racket.
Ha! Looks like you fools who donated could have saved yourself the trouble and made your donations straight to the RIAA.
The RIAA has nothing to worry about, Slashdot has taken care of it FREE OF CHARGE!
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Karma? Karma? I don't need no stinkin' karma.
Because nobody knows as many assholes as an attorney for the RIAA.
you mean MAFIAA
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
"My fundamental view is that people should not be able to walk away from a deal they've made.", Hillary Rosen.
I don't think that what she is referring to is breaking a contract. Rather, the artist should be screwed so hard by their contracts that they can't walk. Ouch!
It appears he got a slight discount. The settlement is to be paid in four installments, the first one $5000, the other three $2333.33 each.
Now, for only $11999.99, paid in four easy installments, you can run a search engine defying the RIAA!!
I found the meaning of life the other day, but I had write-only access.
Cost of tuition for one semester: $2,000 /. attack on top of everything else: Priceless
Fees and settlement from lawsuit: $15,000
Having to deal with a
Yeah, that's
I found the meaning of life the other day, but I had write-only access.
Right. The RIAA doesn't intend to sue him again, or really attempt to rescind the settlement. They're just going to keep doing things that result in /. stories, and kill the kid with bandwidth costs.
How does it feel to be a puppet of the regime, everyone? ;)
~Idarubicin
Great, organized crime on both sides of the fight, that would be interesting.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
That would be "Movie, Art and Fiction - Intimidation Associations of America"
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
about google: looking for "revenge english band new order mp3" (revenge is a english band produced by the english band "new order", but you all know that :-).
Anyway, google is proposing on the right of the result page:
Free MP3 Music Downloads
No monthly fees. Fast downloads.
All your favorite artists available
(link to kaz..)
I find this funny.
What's up with theRIAA website? I went to the main site and it downloaded that has some jibberish and says "HTTP/1.0 302 Moved Temporarily ". Same sort of thing happened with other pages within. Strange.
Speak for yourself. No MPAA or RIAA member has gotten any of my money in twenty years, nor have I made unauthorized copies of anything of theirs
Sooo, you have large collection of disco records, and that made your life complete? =)
-- If we don't stand up for our rights, now, there will be no right to stand up for them later.
I approve. Very nice way to show that he's not intimidated by their legal protection racket.
Except he was...
Man if you're in se tennessee you are in the middle of the best music scene in the world. Open up your ears.
Hip hop. Gah. Listen to some real music you might like it.
> I don't even bother anymore. There's nothing on CD that I even WANT. I'm an old fart now, and don't much care for their content anymore.
:)
Exactly.
"Everybody knows Rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact!"
- Homer Jay Simpson
Don't get yourself so worked up, grandpa.
The last CD I bought was the first CD that wouldn't work with my PC's drive. That was a couple of years ago. You bought the Celine Dion CD ???
There's an italian comedian Pat Cooper. One of his routines goes (by memory):
"Daddy, what does the N-double A-C-P stand for?"
"It's the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People."
"We're italian, what do we got?"
"We got the EMA-AIA-EFFA-IIA-AIA. The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association."
"Oh."
"'Tis great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults, greater to tell him his." --Poor Richard's Almanac
Do you have something similar from a respectable paper ?
The RIAA can play That Achy-Breaky Heart over and over and over...
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
we simply cannot rant against the RIAA unless we first confirm that they're doing anything wrong.
Sure we can, this is slashdot
Hehe
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