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Mothers Taking the Fight to the RIAA
An anonymous reader writes "p2pnet is reporting that two more single mothers are refusing to be victimized by the RIAA. Patricia Santagelo was one of the first to stand up and fight the lawsuits, which some say resemble protection racket schemes. Now Dawnell Leadbetter of Seattle and Tanya Andersen of Oregon have decided to follow suit and stand up against the recording industry behemoth. From the article: 'Don't let your fear of these massive companies allow you to deny your belief in your own innocence. Paying these settlements is an admission of guilt. If you're not guilty of violating the law, don't pay.'"
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Trollkore
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I will not let my fear of the moderators allow me to deny my belief in my own innocence. This is not a troll, moderate according to my belief system, you fascists. Reality be damned.
Now excuse me I get back to watching my son steal music, which I believe not to be stolen.
Peddling emotions as a defendant in a civil suit is usually a big mistake.
If the ISP contract is in her name, she ought to pay unless she can prove that music sharing was done without her knowledge or consent.
If her name is on the contract, she is responsible and carries the liability, PERIOD. It's up to her to seek damages from who ever broke the law. Not too freaking hard to figure out.
If I use my telephone to commit fraud or theft, I'm guilty. If I steal a CD from a music store, I'm guilty. If I steal money through the internet, I'm still guilty. Distributing copyrighted materials through P2P makes you a distributer.
After all this bullshit, I hope the fucking bitch gets crucified.
Yes, now if only you'd stop downloading the songs their stone age business model produces, you'd be entirely in the moral clear.
Any article that starts out by whining about someone's physical handicaps, when they clearly have nothing to do with the matter at hand is a priori full of "#$". How on earth are physical health problems related to one's guilt or innocence with respect to copyright law? The answer? Not at all. Hence, the author starts his argument with a laughably idiotic argument, and that sets the tone for the rest of the article.
In any case, finding a half-dozen sap stories of possible mistaken identity out of 14,000 is not surprising at all. Even in these cases, many of them just look like the parents were not paying due diligence to the children's habits.
articles like this show /. is about as credible a news source as Michael Moore or Rush Limbaugh.
Vote for Pedro
This is the "freedom" that the Bush administration stands for: Giving a bourgeois corporation of parasites the right to bully anyone at will. Count me in for RIAA relief...
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
If your mom had kicked your ass just a little more often maybe you would be able to spell.
> Well, they are doing one of the most productive and valuable things for society -- raising children.
On behalf of the rational citizens of the world, SHUT YOUR SIMPERING, WHINY, PATHETIC GODDAMN MOUTH!! You and the myriad legions of mewling soccer moms out there just looooooove to play that fucking martyr card, don't you? "Oh, but I'm a Mom!" "Every baby is an Angel, and a Mom brought it to Earth!" "Baby baby baby Mom Mom Mom I need to leave four hours early for little Caitlin's soccer practice!"
Seriously. Fuck off.
Hey, here's a trivia question for you: what's harder to do? Write, produce, and publish an album or have a baby while you're in a coma?
Gotcha, fuckface.
You want to blast the RIAA and give gold stars to single mothers (oh, and they just HAVE to be single mothers, 'cause married mothers are too midwestern and Republican to fit your ALL TEH BIG BUSINESS ARE EVIL! argument, arent they?) because causing a baby is so fucking special and ethereal and magical and oh-so-impossible except under the most blissful of circumstances? Well guess what, dicktard... I have two words for you:
BRITNEY GODDAMNED SPEARS!
So which side do you pick here, titfag? Britney may as well be a single mother (and will be, once she stays fat and Cletus finds a new sugar momma to plow like the back 40), but she makes that "shitty top 40 music" that all you faggots use to justify stealing music "'cause it's all crap made by machines."
So which one is it?
Pick one, shitcock. Either all mothers are sainted and holy creatures who can do no wrong and shit roses, or music is a complete luxury that you can either pay the going rate for or go the fuck without it. You can't have it both ways, single mothers can suck my open source cock, and you and all the other blessed single mothers can ride a well-hung moose into the file-sharing sunset.
Eat a dick, you simp.
Paying these settlements is an admission of guilt. If you're not guilty of violating the law, don't pay.'"
But hey, if you download music you haven't bought, that's called piracy, thus you're guilty. If they can prove it, the price will be much higher. SO, if you did do it, admit it, pay for it, be done with it. Idiots.
...too soon. For God's Sake, would everyone please stop bringing up the "McDonald's Coffee Incident". It is crap! Everyone has their opinion about it. I have never seen anyone swayed one way or another. Personally, I WANT F---IN' HOT COFFEE...AND, I HOPE I'M NOT TOO STUPID TO SPILL IT ON MY PENIS (OR VAGINA...OR WHATEVER). I also know people who feel the exact opposite. I have no idea why. To me they are F---IN' INSANE!!!! But, that doesn't matter. The point is, the whole story is pointless because, like the abortion "debate" you're on one side or you're on the other. There is no convincing anyone one way or the other. PLEASE, FOR THE SAKE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, NEVER MENTION THIS CRAP AGAIN!!!!!!
Over-the-top Response Guy! Giving "Over-the-Top Responses" since 1970.
Yeah, in Europe it's called VAT -- "Value Added Tax." It's part of their outrageous system of over-taxation and stagnation of progress.