RIAA's Oppenheim Tries To Protect MediaSentry

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's 'Prince of Darkness,' Washington DC lawyer Matthew Jan Oppenheim of The Oppenheim Group, who controls and supervises all of the RIAA litigations against ordinary folks, has requested permission to intervene in the 'probable cause' hearing scheduled next week in Raleigh, North Carolina, against MediaSentry. The hearing was convened by North Carolina's Private Protective Services Board, after complaints were filed by a law firm representing a number of North Carolina State University students who had been targeted by the RIAA based on the unlicensed 'investigation' conducted by SafeNet (the new name for MediaSentry). I guess the RIAA is worried. They should be."

Comments

Re:Fuck em

[Divebus]

Maybe they should try changing the name again.

why are used cd's allowed, though?

[TheGratefulNet]

this has been a logical flaw in the 'the artists must get paid' argument.

I just bought some used cd's from amazon. some are sold from stores, some from net-only businesses and some from regular old individuals.

in NO case (that I'm aware of) is anyone required to pay any additional amount to any artist or association. yet used cd (and book) sales on amazon are 100% legal.

how come downloading bits on the net (which causes no revenue to return to riaa or artists) is 'illegal' yet used media sales are legal?

I'll even go further than that - lets talk about libraries and how they loan out (for free) books and also cd's.

with all this non-money media stuff changing hands, how come riaa isn't bothering the used sellers and libraries?

answer: their arguments about 'stealing' are less than paper thin...