RIAA Claim of Stopping Suits "Months" Ago Is False

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "According to a report on Wired.com, the RIAA spokesman claimed that the RIAA has not filed any new lawsuits 'for months,' and according to the Wall Street Journal report discussed here yesterday, the RIAA stopped filing mass lawsuits 'early this fall.' Knowing that the RIAA has a problem with telling the truth, I did a little investigating, and found out that the RIAA had, in fact, commenced a wave of lawsuits just last week. Why would anyone believe anything their spokesperson says? This is an organization that has a tendency to misspeak a lot, if you know what I mean, even when under oath." CNet has a copy of the RIAA's new form letter that it will ask ISPs to pass on to alleged copyright-infringing users. It says, in part, "This letter does not constitute a waiver of our members' rights to recover or claim relief for damages incurred by this illegal activity, nor does it waive the right to bring legal action against the user at issue for engaging in music theft."

Comments

Re:Hold the phones!

[Dun Malg]

Your not understanding the downmod, along with the link to your dictionary. now make me think that you are probably Japanese and did not intend to be sarcastic.

If you actually bothered to click the link and scroll down to the bottom of the page to the contact info, you'd see that he's NOT japanese. He was being sarcastic. Troll mod was appropriate. It doesn't matter if someone can name the member orgs of the RIAA. We all know the represent the major labels plus a crapload of smaller ones (a lot of them "boutique" labels controlled by the biggies).

Re:Simple solution: quit being a customer

[NewYorkCountryLawyer]

The simple solution to this is to bankrupt the RIAA members.

I think they're doing that to themselves.

Re:RIAA will stop suing

[NewYorkCountryLawyer]

I guess your name, "Anonymous Coward", says it all.