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RIAA Sues Woman Who Has Never Used a Computer
boarder8925 writes "Marie Lindor, a home health aide who has never bought, used, or even turned on a computer in her life, was sued by the RIAA in Brooklyn federal court for using an 'online distribution system' to 'download, distribute, and/or make available for distribution' plaintiff's music files. She has requested a pre-motion conference in anticipation of making a summary judgment motion dismissing the complaint and awarding her attorneys fees under the Copyright Act."
Punitive Damages !!!!
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I mean she's NEVER used a computer?
i'm assuming she doesn't have broadband either. what ip address did they use to find her? just goes to show how stupid these lawsuits are.
"Doesn't this prove something about the RIAA's investigative methods?"
:)
1. Rip pages out of telephone directory
2. Pin to wall as darts target
3. Throw dart
4. Sue based on the result
5. Profit!!!
(6. Repeat)
A tried and true business method
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Must've been humming the tunes in her head - either that or she was talking on the phone while the radio was playing in the background, that's transmission of copyrighted material over a digital medium, string her up!
I'm suing Slashdot for wasting wast quantities of my time for the past year.
CmdrTaco, you're goin' down.
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This woman does laundry a lot and has no dryer, so she hangs her clothes to dry. When the RIAA said she was using an "online distribution system" to make plaintiff's music files available, they were not referring to a computer; what they meant was that she is often heard whistling copyrighted songs while she hangs clothes on the line; hence, "online distribution system." Typical slashbots rush to this criminal's defense when it is clear she was openly and shamelessly stealing music and she was caught red-handed. Meanwhile, the RIAA music executives are being deprived of a living (or at least of a third yacht) thanks to the lawless actions of such criminals. Eventually this will kill music, as the RIAA warned us about home taping so long ago -- why would an artist bother creating or recording new songs when any old lady can just come by forty years later and whistle it without paying the company that distributes your cds a dime?
but 3 albino kids soaking in water told the RIAA that this woman was planning on buying a computer to pirate music so they sent tom cruise after her. thank god for these pre-emptive lawsuits!
Perhaps this is part of a campaign to instill fear in the hearts of the "guilty" by first stringing up a few obviously innocent people.
We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are.
-- Anais Nin
> 1. Rip pages out of telephone directory
:P
You mean I'm immune to the RIAA if I don't have a landline or list my number in the phonebook?
Seriously, if she never used a computer then she didn't buy any media or software, so media producers lost profits. That's even worse than pirates 'cuz hardware manufacutrers lose profits either! Jail her now.
Since they first sued a dead woman for copyright infringement, and now they're suing a woman for the same thing that does not have a computer. I can put these facts together, and come up with this idea: The RIAA is really a ghost hunting organization. First the dead woman (a ghost!), and now a nonexistant computer (a ghost!). These clearly show their hidden agenda :)
but funny aside, I am half that age and I listen to the radio, I prefer it to TV too!
I bet she also listens to her iPod with the volume up way too high.
She's obviously lying, or demented.
Trading files all night long, then helping houses or whatever during the day.
It happens all the time!
1. Fixed penalty ticket arrives.
2. Friend posts back a denial that he was not at the stated place on the stated day.
3. System replies, stating that his blue whatnot car with registration plate XYZ was clearly photographed by a speed camera at given location. Please see included picture.
4. Friend replies again, stating again that he was nowhere the place and could they please review included picture of Red MOTORCYCLE, registration XYZ.
5. Silence.
That's it! I want to sue the RIAA for deliberately trying to cause global warming!
Proven past refute by my religion:
http://www.seanbonner.com/blog/archives/001857.ph
Now I can sue my neighbour for war in Iraq, he doesn't have any tanks but who cares.
Dear Steve:
Greetings. I represent the RIAA. The song "la la la - I can't hear you!" is copyrighted by BMG, an RIAA member corporation. Your appropriation of the lyrics without permission of the copyright holder is in direct violation of Title 17 USC 101-810. Indeed, your transmission of said lyrics over the internet constitutes a distribution of copyrighted material, and your use of the "online distribution system" known as "slashdot" for your criminal activity amounts to conspiracy to commit copyright infringement. Moreover, the use of the "moderator" system to enhance the visibility and thus the distribution of our client's intellectual property multiplies the damages significantly. Please cease and desist in the use and distribution of our client's property or face legal action.
Let's imagine 2 things for a moment. First, that she's an old granny of 80something, and second, that her grandson bought her a computer so she could stay in touch with him via e-mail.
No, she didn't download. How could she? She has no idea how that machine works. All she knows is "click here, click there, write text, click here". But what do you think happens then?
Search warrant, all her neighbors watching, realizing that the police is hauling stuff from her home. A computer? Oh, kiddy porn. After all, that's what you get to see on TV when they haul computers out of homes.
Granny dealing in kiddy porn? How could she? But then, she's always been the quiet one... you know, gotta watch those creepy quiet ones...
That lady better be VERY glad she doesn't have a computer! Own a computer, hook it to the 'net and you're already with one foot in the prison. But nobody cares when you own 10 guns and an artillery piece...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Why would the RIAA actually bother to investigate what songs are downloaded and by whom? Too much trouble for them! Everyone has illegally downloaded before, right? So no one will ever notice if you just ...
...
1. pick up the phone book and choose your victims at random.
2. pick a few popular songs that everyone must have downloaded anyway
3.
4. profit!
I know someone who regularly gets parking tickets, speeding fines and London "congestion charge" tickets posted to him. This is, of course, traced to him through the vehicle's registration number. The vehicle in question is an old tractor, which lives in a hedge on his farm, and indeed has done for 20 years or so.
You'd think they'd be able to catch the black BMW with the same registration number as a 1950s Fordson tractor, wouldn't you?
But also Bill Gates is due his $300 - $400 dollars for a computer operating system and a full office suite (plus anti-virus software) she should be using. What a thoughtless woman. She and her kind are resposibible for holding back the economy. Think of the starving Chinese children turning out computer boards and peripherals that are being denied their daily bowl of rice. Oh, the humanilty! Think of all those pimple faced kids in their first job at the local appliance stores being deprived of ales. And the ISPs not getting their share.
What a shame. This woman and her kind are criminals. Let's round them up and send them all to re-education camps and force feed them computer classes until they change their anti-social behaviors.
Too lazy to create a sig...
I know... like, how the hell does she pirate music and have meaningless arguments with strangers?
You join either the Democrat or Republican parties and attend the party congress. You will get into plenty of meaningless arguments although some say the the patriotic music offered at these events tends to be a bit cheesy. If you want to get serious about meaningless arguments you can also run for the Senate. Be warned it is an expensive hobby and you have to have your moral backbone and conscience surgically removed.
Only to idiots, are orders laws.
-- Henning von Tresckow
A farmer from Wiltshire got a penalty notice accusing him of doing 85mph on his tractor in south Wales.
His tractor, however, has a top speed of 26mph and has never been to Wales. Simple case of mistaken identity: automatic numberplate reader gets the plate wrong.
The farmer's quote:
"It's a good tractor, but not that good."
Here are some more facts about the person sued by the RIAA:
* She has been dead since 1983
* Is on the terrorist watch list
* Was recorded by Diebold as having cast three votes for President Bush in the 2004 Ohio general election
* Lost her life savings when the buggy whip industry unexpectedly collapsed
* Is blind and deaf
* Is named in legal documents as the Principal on 35 offshore Enron subsidiaries
* Has been the subject of NSA wiretaps and was recently classified as "a clear and present danger" in a Presidential daily security memo after an alleged meeting with several Quakers and other terrorists
* When recently sued by the MPAA for downloading a copy of Backdoor Adventures of Butthead and Beaver, her successful defense was that the bulb in her movie projector burned out in the early 1960s and was never replaced
"Marie Lindor, a home health aide who has never bought, used, or even turned on a computer in her life,"
If she DOESN'T even OWN a computer, WHY WOULD SHE HAVE AN INTERNET CONNECTION?
"Read the f****** article", people!
"Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash." Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A. Heinlein
I advise that we send her ass to GitMo or Area 49 (used for cyborgs, not aliens, located in California, of course) for some serious probing- let Congressmen Conyers and Sensenbrenner plug her analog hole for a little while!
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.-TJ
If the other side can't seriously dispute those facts, and those facts indeed add up to "You win!", cool - you've just saved everyone the time and expense of a full trial.
;-)
So in this situation, she should have gone for a full trial, filing delay after delay a la SCO, to cost the RIAA as much as possible?
There was some debate here, so thanks for clearing up that it is a computer.
I guess this OT here, and should go in as an Ask/. but any help would be appreciated.
If you think imaginary property and real property are the same, when does your house become public domain?
Let me clarify your post:
:)
1. Rip pages out of telephone directory
2. Pin to wall as darts target
3. Throw dart
4. Sue all those that weren't hit by dart
5. Profit!!!
(6. Repeat)
Any technology distinguishable from magic, is insufficiently advanced.
Lawyer: "When's the last time you used a computer?"
Ms. Lindor: "Actually, I've never used one in my life."
RIAA Lawyer: "OBJECTION, relevance!"
When out in public how can you tell a Grammar Nazi by just looking at them?
Simple, look for an adhesive label on their lapel with an upsidedown lower case 'e' on it.
By their schwa-stickers ye shall know them.
"Oh drat these computers, they're so naughty and so complex, I could pinch them." --Marvin the Martian
"Name similarity."
That's how the terminator did it....
"We are all geniuses when we dream"
- E.M. Cioran
I can't even begin to figure out how they would identify her as a "pirate".
Maybe she wears an eye patch and owns a parrot.
If you can read this sig, you're too close.
this is just the ISP's playing games with the RIAA.
RIAA: Give us the user of this IP address!!!
ISP: Why?
RIAA: We have the right to commit murder to prevent copying of our intellectual property under the DMCA! This IP was trading files! Give us the name or we'll kill you!
ISP: [flips through phonebook.....] Ok, Ok...it was....Joe Schlabotnick, of 123 Main Street, Fukyusville, Montana.
RIAA: Thank you. Well...not really. You should consider yourselves honoured to give us the information of your cruminal customer scum!
ISP: Oh, we are....we are... [giggling in background]
RIAA: SUESUESUESUESUESUE!!!! [Calls Joe Schlabotnick]
Joe: Hello?
RIAA: We know you are stealing our music using Napster! [whispering in background...What?...that's legal now....ok, then what's still illegal?......] using KaZaA, eMule, LimeWire, and Bearshare, all at once! You have no chance to survive make your time!
Joe Schlabotnick: Huh? It couldn't have been me. I don't even own a computer.
RIAA: What happen? Someone set us up the bomb!
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
I'm starting to think the RIAA "investigators" pick people at random from the phone book ...
Indeed, and once we see a lawsuit against Navin R. Johnson, well know for sure.
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
RIAA Exec: "The new phone books are here! The new phone books are here!"
Multiple "john does"...CHECK
7 year old girl...CHECK
A mother of four...CHECK
Non computer users...CHECK
Nuns...
President bush...
Lars Ulrich...
Ourselves...
God...
It's true no man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, they make a good raft.
Of course, those work better when you are an immortal and, after your rival runs you through ten times without killing you, you can apologize for calling his wife a bloated warthog and bid him good day!
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; )
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The IP is translated into 127.0.0.1 I'm sure they are sharing music!!!
It was John Doe and John Smith, sue them!!!
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