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RIAA Wants to Depose Dead Defendant's Children
Exchange writes "In Michigan, in Warner Bros. v. Scantlebury, after learning that the defendant had passed away, the RIAA made a motion to stay the case for 60 days in order to allow the family time to "grieve", after which time they want to start taking depositions of the late Mr. Scantlebury's children. Recording Industry vs The People have more details"
The RIAA is lawyers. Representing the recording industry is their full time job.
KFG
What's the difference between a lawyer and a hooker?
A hooker will stop screwing you after you die.
To be fair, the BBC isn't government run, just taxpayer funded. In fact, the BBC has often been attacked in recent years for "unfairly" criticising the government.
"The governments of most social democratic countries would sue the family"
And that, sir, is exactly the difference.
RIAA is not suing that family. It wants the family-members to provide sworn statements (which is what "depose" means) that could be used to proove the guilt of the dead person.
And that makes it a bit, shall I say, distastefull in my opinion.
But, as has allready been remarked, the sole purpose of RIAA is to "kill" (in any way, but for the physical one). Lack of revenue is no problem, as they are attached with a umbilical-cord to their parents, who provide them with the sustenance they need, as well as the pressure to make sure noone intervenes with their idea that they should be able to control anything that could be considered being music.
"Access to the dude's grave to pry his last pirated CD from his cold, dead fingers?"
I realize that you're joking, but I'd like to set the record straight. Larry was a friend of mine. I worked with him for the past couple of years. He never illegally downloaded any music. Unfortunately, his step-son did (IIRC, almost 2000 songs using Limewire). Larry wasn't the most technically proficient guy, so he had no idea this was being done on his own computer. He would bring the case up at work. We would talk about it on occasion, he'd tell me a little about the case and how he was trying to work out a deal. I actually told him about Slashdot, and all the articles about the RIAA's slimy tactics. Larry used to be a lawyer, so he had some idea of how to deal with these guys. Larry's death caught us all by surprise. He died of a brain aneurysm, well before his time.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
Funny how the RIAA is suing people who infringe on the copyrights of their member's then, isn't it?
You do know that the money the RIAA extorts from people goes straight back to the RIAA's legal war chest, right? The artists don't see a dime of it.
Trolling is a art,