Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Have you Received Your $13 from the RIAA?

Posted by Cliff on from the you-could-almost-buy-a-new-CD-with-that dept.

bluephone asks: "The recent story about how the RIAA is scamming around their court approved settlement, I was reminded about the fact that they owe me money. During the registration period, I filed my claim for reimbursement, and my mother did too. They site claims that "Payments will be mailed to Music Purchasers who filed valid claims beginning on February 20, 2004 and two weeks should be allowed for delivery." It uses the future tense because it hasn't been updated since February 19, the day before the mailings were due to start. Well, it's been over 5 months, and neither myself, my mother, nor anyone I know has received their payment. And the only way to inquire about it is via a Post Office Box mailing address. So I ask you, oh Slashdot userbase, have you received your RIAA price fixing settlements?"

4 of 87 comments (clear)

  1. I won't take their money by SetupWeasel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If they are guilty of the charge they settled, they owe me much more than 13 dollars. The class action suit represented me, so I guess I have no claims on them ad infinitum for all the CDs in the box behind me.

    I will say that I do not care. If the justice system ever gets fixed and the corporate corruption eliminated, I may have a claim again. Like that will happen, but I don't believe in any system where you have a lawyer that you don't hire in a case you did not file decide the amount of your claim that you may or may not know about to collect on an opt-out basis.

    I get no settlement, I have no legal right to sue, and I never signed a single contract.

    God Bless America

  2. Re:I go mine by Cheeze · · Score: 2, Insightful

    you gave it right back to them? their plan has worked.

    --
    Why read the article when I can just make up a snap judgement?
  3. new poll by mcmonkey · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Shouldn't this be a poll?

    Have you received your $13 from the RIAA?

    [X] Yes
    [ ] Yes, but I gave it right back buying CDs
    [ ] No
    [ ] No, but I did receive 173 copies of 'Yanni does Kenny G's greatest hits'

  4. Re:I got mine a while ago by petard · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Congratulations. You have responded to the RIAA's price fixing by committing fraud.

    Probably not. OP is likely nit-picking... The RIAA do not themselves sell CDs, but rather their members do. And their members don't generally sell CDs to individuals. They sell CDs to distributors who sell them to stores who sell them to individuals. So OP could truthfully state that he "never bought a CD from the RIAA" and be exactly correct while still being entitled to a settlement check.

    --
    .sig: file not found