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RIAA Directed To Pay $68K In Attorneys Fees
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In Capitol v. Foster, in Oklahoma, the RIAA has been directed to pay the defendant $68,685.23 in attorneys fees. This is the first instance of which I am aware of the RIAA being ordered to pay the defendant attorneys fees. The judge in this case has criticized the RIAA's lawyers' motives as 'questionable,' and their legal theories as 'marginal' (PDF). Although the judge had previously ordered the RIAA to turn over its own attorneys billing records, today's decision (PDF) made no mention of the amount that the RIAA had spent on its own lawyers."
i hope all of you fucking theives goto jail. assholes.
I just looked at your website and it confirmed my suspicion: you're an idiot. Here's your obligatory "shut the fuck up".
What are you, 14? Or were you 14 when you wrote the incoherent rants on your website? I get better writing from my 10th grade English class. You have no business being online - go back to school until you can speak like an adult.
Are you a racist? Or is it you can't distinguish between 'slimy' legal tactics in a democracy, and brutal, bloody fascism (the current popular form being a perversion of a religion)?
Get a clue, some ritalin, something...
Sounds like the law is ruled by offer and demand ... Although I should have expected this from the United States of America*, I'm really surprised of the contradiction between the way you** handle the law on one side and the way you** (are supposed to) write them on the other side. I think that when laws are written, it's in order to achieve something specific either by coercion or by attraction***. The market seems the allow the richest to bend the rules, even if they end up to be in contradiction with what the law was attempting to do in the first place. Instead of judging, it just sounds like bargaining. This is just revolting (for me). Though I don't have any idea of how you could extract the business from the court ... Perhaps this is what some people call "moral corruption", although I've never been able to put a good definition on that expression.
*: ok that sounds length. how should I spell "U.S." in order that it sounds like "T.H.E.M." ?**: well, it's not personal, it's more about the about the "American way of handling the law"
***: as one might figure out, this is YAUT****
****: Yet Another Unproven Theory
PS: I do like the stars. -*- outline-mode -*-
Maybe people should stop stealing music.
This morning's Chicago Tribune had a heavily biased (in favor of the labels of course) story about pre-release copies of CDs being sold on eBay and traded on file sharing networks. The article mentions Chicago station "WKQX-FM 101.1, known as Q101" playing the White Stripes unreleased "Icky Thump" album three weeks before release. Despite the fact that the station said they contacted the label, who inferred that it would be OK, Jack White called up the disk jockey who played it to bitch her out.
I'd never heard of Jack White or the White Stripes so I looked them up on Wikipedia. One thing caught m eye - he was paid $60,000 as an uncredited studio musician on Electric Six's song "Danger! High Voltage. That's more than I make in an entire YEAR.
Sixty grand for work on one song! I'd say this poor little starving asshole (Wikipedia says he was "He was charged with misdemeanor aggravated assault", and only assholes violently attack people) is getting a hell of a lot more cash than any of the fucking lawyers.
I'm neither crying for the labels OR the overpaid fucktards who record for them, only the gullible dimwits who would buy or promote (even by file sharing) them.
Don't support these assholes, give your money to the local guys who really ARE starving, who the labels are doing their damndest to keep them out of your ears.
-mcgrew