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Record Company Collusion a Defense to RIAA Case?

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Is collusion by the record companies a defense to an RIAA case? We're about to find out, because the RIAA has made a motion to strike the affirmative defense of Marie Lindor, who alleged 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" in UMG v. Lindor."

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  1. trade groups are legal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A few years ago, while browsing around the library downtown, I
    had to take a piss. As I entered the john a big beautiful all-American
    football hero type, about twenty-five, came out of one of the booths.
    I stood at the urinal looking at him out of the corner of my eye as he
    washed his hands. He didn't once look at me. He was "straight" and
    married - and in any case I was sure I wouldn't have a chance with
    him.

    As soon as he left I darted into the booth he'd vacated,
    hoping there might be a lingering smell of shit and even a seat still
    warm from his sturdy young ass. I found not only the smell but the
    shit itself. He'd forgotten to flush. And what a treasure he had left
    behind. Three or four beautiful specimens floated in the bowl. It
    apparently had been a fairly dry, constipated shit, for all were fat,
    stiff, and ruggedly textured. The real prize was a great feast of turd
    - a nine inch gastrointestinal triumph as thick as a man's wrist.

    I knelt before the bowl, inhaling the rich brown fragrance and
    wondered if I should obey the impulse building up inside me. I'd
    always been a heavy rimmer and had lapped up more than one little
    clump of shit, but that had been just an inevitable part of eating ass
    and not an end in itself. Of course I'd had jerk-off fantasies of
    devouring great loads of it (what rimmer hasn't), but I had never done
    it. Now, here I was, confronted with the most beautiful five-pound
    turd I'd ever feasted my eyes on, a sausage fit to star in any fantasy
    and one I knew to have been hatched from the asshole of the world's
    handsomest young stud.

    Why not? I plucked it from the bowl, holding it with both
    hands to keep it from breaking. I lifted it to my nose. It smelled
    like rich, ripe limburger (horrid, but thrilling), yet had the
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    without the benefit of a digestive tract?

    I gave it a lick and found that it tasted better then it
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    I hesitated no longer. I shoved the fucking thing as far into
    my mouth as I could get it and sucked on it like a big brown cock,
    beating my meat like a madman. I wanted to completely engulf it and
    bit off a large chunk, flooding my mouth with the intense, bittersweet
    flavor. To my delight I found that while the water in the bowl had
    chilled the outside of the turd, it was still warm inside. As I chewed
    I discovered that it was filled with hard little bits of something I
    soon identified as peanuts. He hadn't chewed them carefully and they'd
    passed through his body virtually unchanged. I ate it greedily,
    sending lump after peanutty lump sliding scratchily down my throat. My
    only regret was the donor of this feast wasn't there to wash it down
    with his piss.

    I soon reached a terrific climax. I caught my cum in the
    cupped palm of my hand and drank it down. Believe me, there is no more
    delightful combination of flavors than the hot sweetness of cum with
    the rich bitterness of shit.

    Afterwards I was sorry that I hadn't made it last longer. But
    then I realized that I still had a lot of fun in store for me. There
    was still a clutch of virile turds left in the bowl. I tenderly fished
    them out, rolled them into my handkerchief, and stashed them in my
    briefcase. In the week to come I found all kinds of ways to eat the
    shit without bolting it right down. Once eaten it's gone forever
    unless you want to filch it third hand out of your own asshole. Not an
    unreasonable recourse in moments of desperation or simple boredom.

    I stored the turds in the refrigerator when I was not using
    them but within a week they were all gone. The last one I held in

  2. GNAA PRESS RELEASE - DO NOT MOD DOWN. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    GNAA annouces death of high-ranking wikipedo admin's wife, hair
    Caulfield (GNAP) - Vancouver, British Columbia

    GNAA operatives stormed the home of Wikipedia admin and registered NAMBLA member Ryan Bushby today, brutally murdering his Kenyan AIDS sex slave and cutting his lice-ridden hippy hair. Upon egress from the tar paper and plywood shack, GNAA encountered two other wikipedia admins armed with HH-1488 "Drilldo" anti-aircraft dongs, who then shot down the extraction roflcopter. This forced the GNAA to retreat and set up a defensive perimeter around the crash site. They would remain there sodomizing a large group of Jimbo Wales' militia forces until the early morning, when a rescue convoy led by Hans Reiser would finally reach them. Despite heavy losses on the part of the GNAA, the operation was deemed a success. As GNAA leader timecop observed shortly after the raid, "lol aids." Bushby was unable to be reached for comment, as he was too busy thinking up new ways to let him sit on his ass and smoke weed all day.

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    1. Re:GNAA PRESS RELEASE - DO NOT MOD DOWN. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      FYI, the klerck link has been overtaken by domain squatters. I suggest you use meatspin.com instead.

    2. Re:GNAA PRESS RELEASE - DO NOT MOD DOWN. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Please provide an alternate path to membership and allow anyone who can watch all of the Zay to join.

  3. Re:A defense? by mr_matticus · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Can you explain how parent is a troll? I'm really asking.

  4. Re:A defense? by Yaa+101 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Probably bean counters don't like smart asses.

  5. Re:A defense? by mr_matticus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, I mean the "it is *a* defense" comment.

    It was a bit of linguistic humor on the poster's part. As in, it's a defense, but not necesssarily a good one or a successful one.