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RIAA Drops Case In Chicago
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes, "The RIAA has dropped the Elektra v. Wilke case in Chicago. This is the case in which Mr. Wilke had moved for summary judgment, stating that: '1. He is not "Paule Wilke" which is the name he was sued under. 2. He has never possessed on his computer any of the songs listed in exhibit A [the list of songs the RIAA's investigator downloaded]. He only had a few of the songs from exhibit B [the screenshot] on his computer, and those were from legally purchased CDs owned by Mr. Wilke. 3. He has never used any "online media distribution system" to download, distribute, or make available for distribution, any of plaintiffs' copyrighted recordings.' The RIAA's initial response to the summary judgment motion, prior to dropping the case, had been to cross-move for discovery, indicating that it did not have enough evidence with which to defeat Mr. Wilke's summary judgment motion. P2pnet had termed the Wilke case yet another RIAA blunder."
Why have us millions of USA-bound users not sued the **AA over a monopoly control? Sure, we can sue under RICO and such especially in this case, but we need to be suing the **AA for A COMPLETE AND TOTAL SHUTDOWN, and not one single /. user, including myself, has the balls to just plain out sue the **AA in a full-blown class action lawsuit, when most of us (at least 60%,) own the CDs we're downloading off the net. Here's my suggestion, if we don't have the balls to do it, don't mention it, because it's waste amongst all of us.
Bring on the downmomds, and those will be the ones that are the most ballless of us all. I forsee it, and I predict it. That's right, you've been planned for in advance, so mod me down as only your ignorant minds can. You are planned and accounted for, cowards, since you can mod yet you don't have the balls to do anything.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Way to karma whore.