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RIAA Wants Agreements to Stay Secret

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the don't-share-that-either dept.

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.'"

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  1. yuo Fail It by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    parts. The c0urent things in Product, BSD's

  2. Where the FUCK is iLife '07??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Come ON you homosexual deviants in Cupertino. QUIT FUCKING AROUND and update your fucking software every so often. You mincing faggots are worse than Debian...

    1. Re:Where the FUCK is iLife '07??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Keep your pants on, dude, they're seeding the mirrors right now.

      Oh, for a minute there I thought you were talking about MySQL 5.0.44...

    2. Re:Where the FUCK is iLife '07??? by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yeah, because yearly updates that cost money are needed by all. Ohwaitno. Nothing's wrong with iLife '06. Relax. Go play Madden 06, 07, and 08 while you wait.

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    3. Re:Where the FUCK is iLife '07??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Last time I was at Apple HQ I didn't see that much mincing. Prancing, flouncing and lisping, yes, but mincing, not so much.

  3. sometimes, it takes balls to be a woman by boguslinks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    how appropriate that this is happening while this song is hot,, at least on the Sirius station I listen to.

  4. Re:You just haven't grown up yet by Joe+Snipe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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