Interview Lawyers Who Defend Against RIAA Suits

Attorneys Ty Rogers and Ray Beckerman maintain a blog called Recording Industry vs The People, subtitled, "A blog devoted to the RIAA's lawsuits of intimidation brought against ordinary working people," which was most recently linked from Slashdot on Sept. 10. They've agreed to answer your questions about RIAA suits -- and they obviously will not preface their answers with "IANAL," although we must note that they cannot give specific legal advice about specific cases. For that you need to engage an attorney yourself. (Luckily, their site contains a directory of lawyers willing to defend against RIAA suits.) In any case, these guys obviously know more than the average bear (or lawyer) about how the RIAA goes about suing music fans, how to keep from getting sued by the RIAA, and how to fight back if you do get sued, so we're glad they're willing to help us learn more about this apparently endless legal mess. Usual Slashdot interview rules apply.

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Re:The author or the user?

[freedom_india]

These are the same guys who:
1. Swore high up and down that moving to CD's from vinyl and tape would make them reduce prices of CD's drastically. This was 10 years ago. Prices of CD's have grown higher not lower.
2. Swore that they would not sue XM Radio and Sirius for providing timeshifting facilities and personal recording. The latest news is they have sued them.
3. Swore mighty high in 1990s that they would NOT sue moms and under-age minors, and instead would sue only corporate piracy.
4. Wanted a higher share from iTunes prices while paying lesser to the real artists for digital downloads.
5. Misrepresent year after year that reduced sales of CDs are due to piracy while the real reason is increased digital sales.
6. Same people who tried to pay back a court ordered fine via crappy CD's.
7. Same people who installed rootkits on your computers and escaped with nothing but a slap on wrist when they should have been put behind bars for "Bubba" to enjoy.
8. Same people who continue to earn more from sales and continue to pay lesser each year to artists by way of clever contracts.
9. Same people who sue dead people and they families.

I could go oln, but i have a job to do rather than ranting about RIAA.

So next time, don;t get your high horse and support RIAA while trying to look neutral.