RIAA Ends "Clean Slate" Scam

ChiralSoftware writes "The RIAA Clean Slate program, started in September, which allegedly attracted 1108 suckers, has finally been dropped. What was wrong with this program? The RIAA was offering something it had no ability to offer, namely amnesty for copyright violations. The mark would admit in a sworn written statement to having violated the law, but was not getting any real amnesty in return for this admission. Despite anything the RIAA says, other copyright holders can still sue a program participant who violated copyright laws, and of course only a US Attorney can offer amnesty for criminal copyright violations. In fact, the RIAA was sued for making false claims of amnesty. The RIAA of course has a different spin on it; they ended the program because their education had succeeded."

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Suit; Counter Suit

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This all reminds me of a recent John Grisham novel, King of Torts, where a lawyer sues someone product liability and the case goes through in months. The lawyer wins but there are damages beyond what the case. So another lawyer who's pissed off sues the lawyer because the law has already judged the plantiff and the defendant.

I understand that the context is different but perhaps something similar might happen. Instead of them suing the RIAA they could sue the RIAAs lawyers. That would be interesting...