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RIAA Bullies Witnesses Into Perjury
QT writes "A Michigan couple is counter-suing the RIAA after they learned that the RIAA had bullied their witnesses into
lying. The story revolves around a 15-year-old girl who, when deposed, told how RIAA lawyers told her that she had to commit perjury just so they could win their case. From the
article: 'Q - Did [the RIAA lawyer] tell you why he needed you to stick with your original false story? A - Because he said he didn't have a case unless I did. Q - So, he told
you that he didn't have a case unless you stuck with the original false story?'"
It just goes to show that 99% of lawyers give the rest of them a bad name.
This is amazing. Every time you think that it can't get worse, it does. There are people on Slashdot right now saying that the RIAA are baby-eaters, and it's getting harder and harder to resist taking it to the extreme.
Which RIAA moron thought this would result in good PR down the road? Stuff like this will always come out.
"MY APOCALYPTIC TENOR HAS NOT BEEN DISPELLED!" - T-Rex, qwantz.com
Now they're suing the 15 year old for copyright infringement for reading their statement outloud in public.
The RIAA would go to customers' houses, brutally murder them, and grind up the body as organ meat for third world countries if they could get away with it.
sixteen comments so far and no industry shill has stepped up to defend them.
RIAA shills, you're slipping. WTF do you think they're paying you for?
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What's wrong with this fucked up country of America, suing little girls because they did what every teen does and has always done record some music and share it. Be it 8 track tapes, casettes recorded from radio, MD's, CD's or mp3 the principle is the same. If we can see it or hear it, we can record it and share it. Now fuck right off RIAA you pillocks.
Oh, gee, could you be looking for this?
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
The sperm cell has a one in ten-million chance of eventually becoming a human being!
Civil disobedience. I like that thought. File downloading and sharing as protest. Protected First Amendment speech. Bring on the ACLU!
Wouldn't that be a W00t!
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
What is even more embarassing is how the RIAA believes it IS the law: said RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy. "We will now, of course, obviously dismiss this case.
I could have sworn that you ask a judge to dismiss a case, you don't just do it yourself.
FTW is "For The Win". Common enough in MMOGs and message boards these days. It's normally used sarcastically.
Some common uses and translations.
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"w00t, [Flimsy Chain Pants] FTW!" == "Wow, some really crappy pants"
"Godwin FTW" == "That idiot just compared someone to Hitler. Discussion over, he loses. Jackass"
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Isn't that the whole point of this filing?
That's fieling.
How many can you afford?
There are people on Slashdot right now saying that the RIAA are baby-eaters
That's a completely unfair allegation. I'm sure that very few members of the RIAA eat babies on a regular basis.
He's right. Fat Wreck Chords may not be thrilled if you copy every CD they have without buying it, and I'm sure Fat Mike would call you a dick and spit on you or something, but that's pretty much as far as it would go. What does suing someone do for you? Not a whole lot but make you look like a money hungry bastard. Spitting on someone makes you look unclean and unprofessional, and let's face it, that's what "punk" is supposed to be about.
Hey, that dead grandmother was illegally listening to downloaded mp3s! Copyright laws apply for a good 70 years after the death of the artist -- the law says nothing about the death of the listener. What, you think some grandma gets a free ride just because she committed her crimes in the afterlife?
Do you think an industry that screws it's clients and treats it's customers like criminals would care about their lawyers?
The first industry I thought of was I read that sentence was prostitution.
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Except there's a special word for that kind of lying, it's called "perjury." They send you to pound-you-up-the-ass federal penetentiaries for that. The only kind of "attention" her lying would get her is the kind you see in certain "womens' prison" themed movies on late-night Skinemax.
Yeah, but I bet prostitutes treat their lawyers better, much, much better;)
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Good call - I guess it depends on the breed of the baby. Most of the RIAA people that I know shy away from Bovine babies, but they do tend to favor the Homo Sapien flavour - when softened with a legal tenderizer.
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.
Same with Epitaph Records.
I love how theregister.co.uk abbriviated "The Recording Industry of America" "The Recording Industry Ass. of America" -- who they really are!
Thanks for clearing that up. I always assumed it was "Fut The Wuck."
And before you ask, no, it didn't make any sense to me at the time either.
When the only tool you have is a claw hammer every problem starts to look like the back of someone's skull.
This is Ethics 101 stuff and these lawyers failed.
I didn't know Lawyers even knew what Ethics were...
Actually, they would eat MORE babies, but they can't afford to because they are losing so much revenue because of (fill in the blank of you favorite file sharing client).
Nitewing '98
Everything works...in theory.
Oh come on now. If they didn't know, how could they use them against political opponents when they devolve into politicians?
There are people on Slashdot right now saying that the RIAA are baby-eaters
The Association of Baby Eaters just called...they're thinking of sueing you for making that libelous false association.
You're using her as bait, Master!
Your kidding right?
Your illiterate right?
Please do not compare the good people of the Mafia to members of the RIAA.
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