RIAA Lied To Congress About New Filesharing Suits

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 5, 2009 @09:10PM from the honestly-they're-all-at-the-cleaners dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "On December 23, 2008, the RIAA's Mitch Bainwol sent a letter to the Judiciary and Commerce Committees of both the House and Senate, falsely representing to them that the RIAA 'discontinued initiating new lawsuits in August.' A copy of the letter is online (PDF). In fact, as many of you already know, the RIAA brought hundreds of new lawsuits since August. See, e.g., these 40 or so cases which just represent some of the cases brought in December." Maybe they're just taking a broad view of the world "initiate."

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Re:Is lying to Congress illegal? by mcgrew · 2009-02-06 02:19 · Score: 1, Flamebait

iANAL but IINM they can be charged with "Contempt of Congress". Except they can't, because the fix is in, the RIAA has bribed "your" and "my" representatives with campaign cash. There isn't a snowball in hell's chance of these scumbags ever being charged with anything.
You have no representation in the US government. Only corporations and the very rich are represented.
OT but on the same note, Madoff will never be put in a cell despite his stealing fifty billion dollars.

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