RIAA Subpoenas Neighbor's Son, Calls His Employer

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."

Comments

Re:What to do about it?

[theheff]

cmd

ping www.riaa.com

(until they stop)

In the land of sweeping statements

[tttonyyy]

From TFA:

However, in this case they basically decided to go for the gold and [the RIAA] made a bold argument claiming that merely making files available on the internet is in and of itself a copyright infringement. It was a shocking argument because if it were accepted it would probably shut down the entire internet.

Because there is no internet outside of the US. Or, in fact, anything. It's all just sea, y'know.

Re:Or rather, how much can they get away with...

[Anonymous Coward]

IANAL, but this is great advice to follow. You can always do well in court going pro say. You should be able to prove mens ray without a problem. It's obviously a prema fashuh case once you supena their motis operondeye. Your lingwa franka may be free music coupons in sitoo of money if you don't argue it right, but that's kwid pro kwo in an ex partay decision. You should have some stare deseesis on your side, but still, good luck.