RIAA Sues Stroke Victim in Michigan

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA has now brought suit against a stroke victim in Michigan in Warner v. Paladuk. The defendant John Paladuk was living in Florida at the time of the alleged copyright infringement, and had notified the RIAA that he had not engaged in any copyright infringement. Despite the fact that Mr. Paladuk suffered a stroke last year (pdf), rendering him disabled, the RIAA commenced suit against him on February 27, 2007. Suing the disabled is not new to the RIAA. Both Atlantic v. Andersen in Oregon and Elektra v. Schwartz in New York were suits brought against disabled people who have never engaged in file sharing, and whose sole income is Social Security Disability. Both of these cases are still pending. The local Michigan lawyer being used by the RIAA in the Paladuk case is the same lawyer who was accused by a 15 year old girl of telling her what to say at her deposition in Motown v. Nelson. In the Warner v. Scantlebury case, after the defendant died during the lawsuit, the same lawyer indicated to the court that he was going to give the family '60 days to grieve' before he would start deposing the late Mr. Scantlebury's children."

Comments

No way in hell that will ever work

[scenestar]

It might work in pansy liberal love fests like the netherlands but with the various fringe groups that inhabit the USA such a system involving fees on blank media would never work.

first of all you got the "tough on everything" morons that will think it "sends out the wrong message" and secondly you got the "randian" cultists^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h libertarians who will cry bloody murder over the fact that "they might use the blank media for something else".

Let's Play "Spot the Troll"

[NewYorkCountryLawyer]

1. This story, for some reason, has the RIAA trolls out in droves.

2. I don't know if it's several of them, or if it's one person with several ID's.

3. But I'm finding it fun to spot the user ID's that are trolling for the RIAA, and marking them "foe", other than the AC's.

4. I hope you'll all join in the fun.

5. I hope those of you with moderation points will play, too.

Re:Evil much

[anagama]

Personally, if I had a choice, I'd rather pay a media tax than pay for breeders' kids. I figure with a media tax, I'd pay something and get something. With the "kid" taxes we're inundated with, I should get to screw a bunch of MILFs (without the jealous husband/she wants a relationship/you never buy me flowers/can you babysit the kid while gI o shopping BS). Now, if I had free range of all the MILFs sucking on my wallet, I'd think of the kid taxes as "OK" too. As it is, I get the bill and none of the pleasure.