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Mediasentry Violates Cease & Desist Order

Posted by kdawson on from the what-part-of-stop-don't-you-understand dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "On January 2, 2008, the Massachusetts State Police ordered MediaSentry, the RIAA's investigator, to cease and desist from conducting investigations in Massachusetts without a license. Based on what appears to be irrefutable proof that MediaSentry has been violating that order, the Boston University students who tentatively won, in London-Sire v. Doe 1, an order tentatively quashing the subpoena for their identities, have brought a new motion to vacate the RIAA's court papers altogether, on the ground that the RIAA's 'evidence' was procured by criminal behavior."

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  1. Mediasentry's repsonse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    IP addresses are not a reliable method of proving crimes on the internet.

  2. Don't you people get it? by NotBornYesterday · · Score: 3, Funny

    Laws only apply to little people like you, not big people like us. Now give us some money and go away. Sincerely, RIAA

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  3. How pathetic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    IP infringers try to justify their unauthorized downloading of copyrighted material.

    These legal issues with Mediasentry are petty technicalities. The important thing is that greedy pirates are trying to entertain themselves with content without paying. This isn't fair to the labels, artists, or countless artisans involved in this hard work.

    Every Madonna song you download illegally impoverishes the people of Malawi. Please pay the market price for this regulated scarcity.

    Madonna is the best!

  4. I can hear it now by kseise · · Score: 5, Funny

    RIAA: Somebody set up us the bomb
    The People: All your papers are belong to us. Make your time.

  5. Re:Ummm ... proof is where? by gstoddart · · Score: 2, Funny

    The "irrefutable proof" is in the Exhibits (Cease & desist order, printouts) [ilrweb.com] (pdf). Boy are you a lazy reader.

    Ummm, yeah. A link to another site (the 5th link down the posting mind you) with an embedded PDF, in a blog posting which doesn't even contain the words "irrefutable proof" ... and I'm a lazy reader??

    *laugh* You damned lawyers are just too used to the sheer volume created by your profession to assume us normal folks would ever find that. That's not exactly the most glaring nugget of information available from the link. :-P

    It was on display in a dark cellar with no stairs in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard".


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  6. Re:Where do you want your IP to be from? by j_166 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Give me 30 minutes and an SSH connection and I'll get you the latest Ricky Martin album downloaded to an IP apparently in Brazil.

    True, the vast majority of infringers are not going to go to that kind of extreme or hassle, but downloading to another IP isn't that hard, especially if you have physical access to the machine."

    Hell, give me 15 minutes, Ricky Martin, and a length of rubber hose, and I'll get him out to your IP apparently in Brazil *personally*.

  7. Re:CORRECTION .... I MADE A MISTAKE.... by NewYorkCountryLawyer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks, shentino. My hunch is that that was an RIAA troll.

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