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NYCL Responds to RIAA Accusations

Posted by timothy on from the bob-dole-and-nycl-never-seen-in-same-room dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "You may recall that when the RIAA decided to run away with its tail between its legs in the long running Brooklyn case against a home health aide who has never used a computer, UMG v. Lindor, it decided to take some parting shots at the defendant and NewYorkCountryLawyer, asking for 'discovery sanctions,' and blaming them for its inability to prove its case. Today NYCL gave them his response, accusing the RIAA lawyers of persistent misstatements of fact (PDF) throughout their motion papers, and of flouting the rules and misstating the law (PDF). Although the RIAA's motion papers took a number of shots at NYCL's copyright law blog, 'Recording Industry vs. The People,' NYCL confined his response on that subject to a single footnote."

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  1. Re:Still looking for the illegal music by negRo_slim · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You know, they are still out there. Actual web pages with links to albums and on occasion a straight up .rar download. But it's just been fantastic I was able to find some Dance Hall Crashers and Mustard Plug albums I simply couldn't find anywhere else. In fact they are sites that look a lot like... this... It's like a breath of fresh air, sometimes I worry about the world at large when I look at the top torrents on any given site.

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    On the Oregon Cost born and raised, On the beach is where I spent most of my days
  2. Re:Fascism We Can Believe In! by husker_man · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know I shouldn't respond to this, but am I the only one that read it and thought most of it didn't sound half bad? I always thought public service was a good thing.

    There's nothing wrong with public service, as long as the person serving is doing it voluntarily. I know, wartime is a different issue which necessitates a draft, but for peacetime if you wish to serve, go ahead. Just don't require it, because if you do you tend to turn people off from doing it on their own rather than being forced. Too often you see people lining their pockets at the trough of "public service".

    In other words, if you want to inspire people by doing public service, I applaud you. Just don't force people to do something that should come from within.

  3. Re:Footnote by ps2os2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If I did not know any better I would guess that the lawyers are EX-BUSH Aides. At least soon we will also have an EX-BUSH. I would only hope the the new Attorney General would bring up most of the Bush administration on charges. If Obama does anything close to pardon them. Obama is toast and will be lucky to stay in office the length of his elected term.