RIAA Subpoenas Neighbor's Son, Calls His Employer

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday November 28, 2006 @04:43AM from the kicks-his-puppy-puts-suger-in-his-gas-tank dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "To those who might think that I might be exaggerating when I describe the RIAA's litigation campaign as a 'reign of terror', how's this one: in UMG v. Lindor, the RIAA not only subpoenaed the computer of Ms. Lindor's son, who lives 4 miles away, but had their lawyer telephone the son's employer. See page 2, footnote 1." From Ray's comments: "You have a multi-billion dollar cartel suing unemployed people, disabled people, housewives, single mothers, home healthcare aids, all kinds of people who have no resources whatsoever to withstand these litigations. And due to the adversary system of justice the RIAA will be successful in rewriting copyright law, if the world at large, and the technological community in particular, don't fight back and help these people fighting these fights."

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Re:It is by CRiMSON · 2006-11-28 04:55 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Or what about the fact he was using works computer to download music, Does this give them the right?

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A bold prediction... by brouski · 2006-11-28 04:59 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I'm going to predict this discussion will be full of people bitching and moaning about the employer being called, without ever reading the attached documents in TFA to discover why.
Looks like I'm right so far.

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