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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."
No they tell a mistruth because they do not run a free, open source operating system like Linux. Instead, they choose to use closed source, proprietary operating systems, like Windows. If only they could adopt Linux, then the community could inspect the source code, and this would never have happened!
I honestly don't give a rats ass what the RIAA is doing to people who "share" music online. That's between them.
What I am very concerned about is that you are very clearly using the recordingindustryvspeople website to attract people to Scientology.
This same tactic of using a very easily tarred target is used by Scientology to recruit members in other areas. The most famous of these is Narconon which is a supposed anti-drug support group which is simply a front for Scientology.
I will not go into why I think Scientology should not be embraced here on Slashdot. I will simply leave the question hanging out there whether we ought to be listening to NYCL when he so clearly aligns himself with the religion.
what's got your sphincter so tight anyway bud? it's not like the riaa was crawling up in your ass or is that your problem? have you been living in mortal fear of the riaa?
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).
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
The simple solution to this is to bankrupt the RIAA members.
I think they're doing that to themselves.
Ray Beckerman +5 Insightful
Ok, well, all of you who think stealing is ok please give me your addresses so I can rob your houses. I mean, since it is ok for you to steal from others it should be ok for others to steal from you and since it is wrong for those you stole from to seek damages or prosecution then I have nothing to fear in stealing from you. Right?
When morons stop stealing music.
Maybe when the RIAA stated that they wouldn't sue anymore, they were operating under the assumption people would grow up and stop being thieves.
But I guess that was a pretty stupid move by the RIAA, assuming people might have a sense of morals and such. Thank goodness you're here to defend them!