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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.
Once upon a time, spin control in the music industry meant 33 1/3 or 45 rpm.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the (supposed) good of its victims may be the most oppressive