RIAA Moves To Keep Revenue Info Secret

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 10, 2009 @11:11AM from the yes-your-honor-it's-100k-per-cd-trust-us dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In the Boston, Massachusetts case SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, the Court had ordered the RIAA to produce certain revenue information, which would be relevant to a determination of the 'fair use' defense. The RIAA has now moved for a protective order to keep the information 'confidential.' In the opinion of the undersigned, the fact that the motion is made jointly by four competitors shows that any claim suggesting the information is valuable or 'proprietary' would be unfounded, and the sole purpose for making the motion is to keep the information out of the hands of lawyers for other defendants, thus increasing the defense costs in other cases."

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Unsurprising by Renraku · 2009-07-10 11:19 · Score: 5, Funny

Children throw tantrums and do irrational things to defend their viewpoints as well.

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Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
Why is it.... by forgot_my_username · 2009-07-10 11:27 · Score: 5, Funny

I had this big huge rant lined up....
And, then I realized it wasn't going to do any good at all.
All that's left to do is sigh....

Oh... and download some music from megaupload...
:D

p.s. that was a joke of course! I use other download services!