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RICO Class Action Against RIAA In Missouri
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In Atlantic Recording v. Raleigh, an RIAA case pending in St. Louis, Missouri, the defendant has asserted detailed counterclaims against the RIAA for federal RICO violations, fraud, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, prima facie tort, trespass, and conspiracy. The claims focus on the RIAA's 'driftnet' tactic of suing innocent people, and of demanding extortionate settlements. The RICO 'predicate acts' alleged in the 42-page pleading (PDF) are extortion, mail fraud, and wire fraud. The proposed class includes all people residing in the US 'who were falsely accused ... of downloading copyrighted sound recordings owned by the counterclaim Defendants and making them available for distribution or mass distribution over a P2P network and who incurred costs and damages including legal fees in defense of such false claims' or 'whose computers used in interstate commerce and/or communication were accessed ... without permission or authority.' This is the second class action of which we are aware against the RIAA and the Big 4 recording companies, the first being the Oregon class action brought by Tanya Andersen, which is presently in the discovery phase."
Here RIAA RIAA RIAA. Come and get me and my 200+ gigabytes of stolen music.
In the USA, we are supposedly innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Thus, you can claim you are falsely accused up to the point where a judge banks the gavel and declares you guilty.
At least, that is what my elementary school teacher taught me back in the 70's.
Bearded Dragon
I wonder how many times has this been pointed out that someone should roll up a RICO class action suit against RIAA?
The RIAA getting RICO-rolled... there's a youtube viral in there somewhere, I can sense it.
Dear Lord . . . I actually understand that. I need to get out more. :)
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
I used FDR of raping me years after he died, and won.
FDR raped you years after he'd died...?!
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I'm no legal expert but ...
Don't worry. Neither are the RIAA's lawyers.
Ray Beckerman +5 Insightful
1) Introduce entire copyrighted catalog of RIAA as material evidence
2) Request public records of proceedings
3) ????
4) Profit!
sheer elegance in its simplicity!
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I changed my routers MAC address to DE:AD:BE:EF:BA:BE
The problem is, I forgot all about it for roughly 2 years.
Right up until the time I had to call my ISP about something. The tech on the other end asked me what kind of router I had and when I told him, he says "No, you don't have (brand x)". I'm thinking "wtf is he talking about?" because the router is, literally, right there in front of me. So we argued about it for about 10 minutes and I finally got done what I needed.
After we hung up, I realized why he was asking....
Now, I can't help but wonder whose router he THINKS I have? Who the hell would use DEADBEEFBABE as a default MAC address?