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IFPI Threatens UK Academic For Linking To Article

Posted by kdawson on from the we're-gonna-tell-on-you dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Apparently the RIAA is getting sensitive about counterclaims. When a British blog author linked to a recent article about a defendant's counterclaims for extortion and conspiracy by the RIAA in a Florida case, UMG v. Del Cid, a record company executive who sits on the board of the RIAA's UK counterpart, the IFPI, threatened the author if he did not take his link down."

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  1. Their strategy by saibot834 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Their strategy is not to win those cases in front of court. They just want to scare you by suing innocent people. They want you to think "if that innocent guy got sued, maybe I am next". It's a bit like terrorism.

    1. Re:Their strategy by vivaoporto · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's a bit like terrorism.
      No, it is not anything near terrorism. Extortion, racketeering, blackmailing, maybe. But terrorism is a completely different thing. It is because this kind of mislabeling, claiming anything that aims to scare people to be "terrorism", that is so easy for governments all over the world to take away everyone's rights with the excuse of combating it. RIAA blackmailing people is not like terrorism. People discussing ways to blow things up is not terrorism. Disguised people shooting at soldiers in the battlefield is not terrorism.

      I'm as much against RIAA tactics as everyone else. Also, I'm against terrorism and every kind of organized violence. But let's call a spade a spade, all right? Everytime someone misuse the word "terrorism", god kills a kitten and the terrorists win.
    2. Re:Their strategy by suv4x4 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Everytime someone misuse the word "terrorism", god kills a kitten and the terrorists win.

      Damn, god's a terrorist.

    3. Re:Their strategy by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 5, Insightful

      "Maybe" /. is next. They won't care about /. for one very important reason ... few people on /. RTFA. ;-)
    4. Re:Their strategy by jabuzz · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Since when was being sued by a multi million pound corporation for a huge sum of money that would potentially bankrupt yourself as a private individual for something you did not do *not* terrifying?

      Given that the RIAA are doing this systematically and a large number of people would classify it as terrifying then by your definition it is terrorism.

      The problem is that you are equating being terrified with physical violence.

  2. It's called a "Chilling Effect" by advocate_one · · Score: 5, Informative

    see here

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