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New Attorneys Fee Decision Against RIAA
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA has gotten slammed again, this time in Oregon, as the Magistrate Judge in Atlantic v. Andersen has ruled that Tanya Andersen's motion for attorneys fees should be granted. The Magistrate, in his 15-page decision, noted that, despite extensive pretrial discovery proceedings, 'when plaintiffs dismissed their claims in June 2007, they apparently had no more material evidence to support their claims than they did when they first contacted defendant in February 2005.....' and concluded that 'Copyright holders generally, and these plaintiffs specifically, should be deterred from prosecuting infringement claims as plaintiffs did in this case.' This is the same case in which (a) the RIAA insisted on interrogating Ms. Andersen's 10-year-old girl at a face-to-face deposition, (b) the defendant filed RICO counterclaims against the record companies, and (c) the defendant recently converted her RICO case into a class action"
and then no doubt a content and culture free America where the biggest budget, highest quality movie is a cat falling off a chair on youtube.
you bunch of fucking ignorant thieves and leechers who whine about the RIAA should just learn to PAY YOUR FUCKING WAY.
if its all so shit, why do you and your thieving ass friends max out your broadband connections bit-torrenting it all?
moronic, dileetante OpenBSD guys%. They Fate. Let's not be
Other cultures than anglo-saxons (read: the rest of Mankind) do not harbour such a distrust of the State and, you know what? their States are efficient and work towards the benefit of their nations.
I do not expect you to understand this, as anglo-saxons have an inherent incapability to understand other cultures.