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RIAA Wants Student Deposed On School Day

Posted by kdawson on from the drop-everything-and-get-in-here dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In a Houston, Texas, case, UMG v. Hightower, the RIAA has served a subpoena on the defendant's son, a high school student, on one day's notice, telling him to be at a lawyer's office at 9:00 a.m. the next day, a school day, for a deposition. The defendant's lawyer objected (PDF)."

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  1. Prays? by jakosc · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the Motion to Quash:

    Defendant prays that the court grants this motion Prays?? Is that what's necessary now?
    1. Re:Prays? by RileyLewis · · Score: 1, Funny

      Well when the RIAA preys, you've got to pray!

    2. Re:Prays? by FlatLine84 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I dunno, but this excuse beats the "My dog ate my homework" line.

    3. Re:Prays? by eln · · Score: 4, Funny

      humor, noun: a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement

      oblivious, adjective: see FooAtWFU

    4. Re:Prays? by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 4, Funny

      What, pray tell, is your problem with the word?

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    5. Re:Prays? by bazorg · · Score: 4, Funny
      he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being."

      Michael Jordan is real enough for me to sign that contract.

    6. Re:Prays? by malkien · · Score: 2, Funny

      your examples would be too controversial.
      I say Cthulhu would qualify as quite supreme by any standard.

    7. Re:Prays? by Bogtha · · Score: 5, Funny

      You could probably get away with Diana Ross.

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    8. Re:Prays? by BrokenHalo · · Score: 4, Funny

      I knew a Texan once. He was so big that when he died, no-one could make a big enough coffin to bury him in.

      So they gave him an enema, and buried him in a shoe-box...

      *ducks* :-D

  2. Standard legalese by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The judge is God.

  3. In Other News... by stevens · · Score: 4, Funny

    An RIAA lawyer today tipped poorly at the diner where he eats breakfast.

    June Dawson, 43, waited on him this morning. She is a single mother of two, battling cancer. She was not enthusiastic about the tip: "He left a stinking dime. Next time I'm going to spit in his eggs."

    The RIAA did not respond to enquiries at press time.

  4. Bad precendent... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Now kids will be downloading and reporting themselves to the RIAA so that they can get out of school!

    The good news is maybe this will make call in bomb threats obsolete.

  5. Hightower's in trouble? by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 2, Funny

    Quickly! Get Jones in there to make some funny noises with his voice until Zed scream incoherently and Mahoney makes one of his moving speeches!

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  6. School's wasted on the kid anyway by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 4, Funny
    His dad is obviously a music pirate, otherwise the RIAA wouldn't be bringing the lawsuit. Since we all know that pirates' sons always takeover the family business, it doesn't take a genius to see that the only thing this kid needs from school is enough math to count all the billions of doallars he's going to steal from the hard working middle managers of the music business.

    They're doing him a favor. Really.

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  7. Re:School day by Himring · · Score: 3, Funny

    It is odd. Lawyers, and especially the riaa, are so typically thoughtful....

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  8. Re:TAKS Test by soft_guy · · Score: 2, Funny

    it is during Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test week At least he won't be missing anything important.
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  9. Shows what you know by Mateo_LeFou · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Why does the music industry feel it should tamper with the education of our minors just to placate some facile legal action?"

    Dude, get a clue: these are *pirates, they don't care about education. All they care about is stealing, stealing, stealing other people's intellectual property.

    If anything is tampering with their education, it's the alien viruses in their brains, which impel them to download our songs for *nothing, thereby descrating our intellectual property. The same intellectual property provided for in the Constitution, section IV, which says

    "Intellectual property rocks. We should have lots of it."

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  10. Re:School Day == Work Day? by rah1420 · · Score: 3, Funny

    At the risk of getting ensnared on your hook, you could've read the article and discovered that for yourself.

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  11. Re:School Day == Work Day? by FMota91 · · Score: 1, Funny

    These are not mutually exclusive. "OR" is not mutually exclusive.
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  12. Give 'em all detention by HikingStick · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, if that's how they want to play, I say the school should send detention notices to every one of those buggers. If they don't show up, call their parents!

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  13. Re:School Day == Work Day? by frostband · · Score: 2, Funny

    you could've read the article and discovered that for yourself

    And revoke my official slashdotter status? Don't be silly.

  14. Re:Go figure. by Skevin · · Score: 2, Funny

    > you're paying less when distributing marijuana or posessing cocaine, than you are to host MP3's

    I once got modded down for saying this, but I predicted that the RIAA and Rockstar Games would create a new GTA to reflect the truly heinous crimes in the USA:

    1 star: Making backups of your music
    2 stars: downloading music off the internet
    3 stars: living next door to someone downloading music off the internet
    4 stars: living next door to someone *accused* of downloading music off the internet
    5 stars: playing poker online for real money
    6 stars: not having any real money

    Shooting cops and beating up hookers have nothing on these crimes.

    Solomon

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