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RIAA Wants Agreements to Stay Secret
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA is opposing Ms. Lindor's request for discovery into the agreements among the record company competitors by which they have agreed to settle and prosecute their cases together, by which she seeks to support her Fourth Affirmative Defense (pdf) alleging that 'The plaintiffs, who are competitors, are a cartel acting collusively in violation of the antitrust laws and of public policy, by tying their copyrights to each other, collusively litigating and settling all cases together, and by entering into an unlawful agreement among themselves to prosecute and to dispose of all cases in accordance with a uniform agreement, and through common lawyers, thus overreaching the bounds and scope of whatever copyrights they might have. ...As such, they are guilty of misuse of their copyrights.'"
Looks as if balls are not the necessary equipment.
rj
SIXTH AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE
12. Plaintiffs are guilty of unclean hands.
Apparently the RIAA downloads a lot of porn.
No, in the U.S., you're too fat to reach or even see your feet, you wouldn't notice the shoes.
In the States you can't really sue yourself.
The Raven
The word you want is "is."
Ma'am, there's a Mr. Godwin on Line 2...
Proud member of the American Non Sequitur Society. We might not make much sense, but boy do we love pizza!
Once upon a time, spin control in the music industry meant 33 1/3 or 45 rpm.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Maybe the Mafia objected to be put in one bag with the RIAA and MPAA. :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the (supposed) good of its victims may be the most oppressive
Like most of your fellow Americans, you work more hours than you should, have no health insurance, are overweight, and never get laid. In your free time you post essays about the threats of "Islamofascism" to Freerepublic.com from your basement.
Listen p*ssy. I'm sure your the same homo that posted earlier about alf's boner and you just want to remain anonymous fo
...the RIAA is fighting against drug money, illegal gun money, and even "terrorism."
And that's just from the guys in marketing, who are annoyed that the legal dept. has taken over their former areas of expertise.
bork bork bork!
"The RIAA is opposing Ms. Lindor's request for discovery into the agreements among the record company competitors by which they have agreed to settle and prosecute their cases together, by which she seeks to support her Fourth Affirmative Defense (pdf) alleging that 'The plaintiffs, who are competitors, are a cartel acting collusively in violation of the antitrust laws and of public policy, by tying their copyrights to each other, collusively litigating and settling all cases together, and by entering into an unlawful agreement among themselves to prosecute and to dispose of all cases in accordance with a uniform agreement, and through common lawyers, thus overreaching the bounds and scope of whatever copyrights they might have. ...As such, they are guilty of misuse of their copyrights.'"
Gasp...gasp...gasp
You couldn't break it up into smaller sentences, eh?
Fata viam invenient.