RIAA Countersued Under Racketeering Laws

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday February 18, 2004 @03:17PM from the prohibition-is-on dept.

Negadin writes "According to CNET News, a New Jersey woman, one of the hundreds of people accused of copyright infringement by the Recording Industry Association of America, has countersued the big record labels, charging them with extortion and violations of the federal antiracketeering act." The woman's attornies are arguing that "...by suing file-swappers for copyright infringement, and then offering to settle instead of pursuing a case where liability could reach into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, the RIAA is violating the same laws that are more typically applied to gangsters and organized crime."

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No Coincidence--Netcraft confirms, /. is dying by Tiro · 2004-02-18 17:14 · Score: 0, Troll

I've had the same issues, and A few weeks ago, I couldn't connect to slashdot.org for hours.
It is official & Netcraft confirms: Slashdot is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered /. community when Netcraft confirmed that ./ uptime has dropped yet again, now down to less than 99.9% reliability. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that /. has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Slashdot.org is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent.. umm.. duplicate post tests : ]