RIAA Brief Attacks Free Software Foundation

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA has requested permission to file a response to the amicus curiae brief filed by the Free Software Foundation in SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, the Boston case against a Boston University grad student accused of having downloaded some song files when in his teens. In their proposed response, the RIAA lawyers personally attacked The Free Software Foundation, Ray Beckerman (NewYorkCountryLawyer), and NYCL's blog, 'Recording Industry vs. The People.' The 9-page response (PDF) — 4 pages longer than the document to which it was responding — termed the FSF an organization 'dedicated to eliminating restrictions on copying, redistribution, and modifying computer programs,' and accused the FSF of having an 'open and virulent bias against copyrights' and 'blatant bias' against the record companies. They called 'Recording Industry vs. The People' an 'anti-recording industry web site' and stated that NYCL 'is currently subject to a pending sanctions motion for his conduct in representing a defendant' (without disclosing that plaintiffs' lawyers were 'subject to a pending motion for Rule 11 sanctions for their conduct in representing plaintiffs' in that very case)."

Comments

Re:Maybe I haven't been paying attention...

[quetzalblue]

> A gem from his book:

I just knew I shouldnt have inhaled. I used to read Lord of the Rings and had no trouble imagining something completely unreal, but reading the above "gem" I couldnt figure out what they were talking about so I couldnt imagine what is actually (allegedly?) real. Hmmm .. .I know, it's that automatic "fog" generator throwing up meaningless drivel, yeah, that's it. I'll go with that.

Re:Maybe I haven't been paying attention...

[BlueStrat]

I wonder how many votes a party called "The Dastardly Evildoers" would get, specially if their leader was called Dick......no, not Dick Cheney before anyone points out that he'd suit the role rather well.

I prefer "Snidely Whiplash" myself. Although Boris and Natasha might be some competition. Personally, I think we'd probably be more free and less-taxed with the "Dastardly Evil-Doer" party than either the D's or R's.

Unfortunately, we seem to be ruled currently by a bunch of Dudley Do-Rights that want to micro-manage every aspect of our lives while taxing us to death for the privilege. Then, if some have the gall to actually complain, they're publicly ridiculed in the national mainstream media and called all sorts of nasty names, including racist for simply having the audacity to disagree and say so publicly. "All that protesting and freedom of speech stuff is only for *us* when anyone other than us are in power! Didn't you get the memo?"

Strat