| haha This will motivate people even more. Since your fines are so low. The RIAA are newbions and should just give up! |
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pmizelllPremium
join:2003-08-13
Houston, TX
1 edit | It doesn't get any sleazier than this.
Pay a grand ... do not pass go and you DON'T GO TO JAIL!
Absolutely amazing! This is borderline extortion!! |
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| said by pmizelll:It doesn't get any sleazier than this. Pay a grand ... do not pass go and you DON'T GO TO JAIL! Absolutely amazing! This is borderline extortion!! Nothing borderline about it at all. This is straight out of protection racket schemes. Instead of breaking legs, they just use other methods.
What this appears to be is more like law firms and the **AA's maintaining a cash stream by any means they can muster. Like SLAPP lawsuits, they bank on no real legal challenge being mounted to their tactics. Add to that their generous political contributions which serve to stave off legislation that might nip their extortionary behaviors in the bud.
Sooner or later, a Dickey Flatt or Mike Papantonio-type lawyer, expert in the dark and eldritch arts of the class action lawsuit, is gonna rest his or her laser targeting pip on these shysters. Then, the real fun is gonna begin. |
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Actually, since no subpoena was obtained probably to get your info and/or you had no court input, I'd probably sue them for Invasion of Privacy. One can oppose a civil subpoena of records. A criminal subpoena goes unless it is private psychiatric records. A Judge won't approve those. |
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 Doctor FourMy other vehicle is a TARDISPremium
join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX | reply to TScheisskopf
Sounds like grounds for lawsuits under the RICOH Act. Go
after them for the same things the MAFIA have been doing.
The similarities are so glaring that Big Music (Organized
Music) and Hollywood ought to be referred to as the MAFIAA.
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| said by Doctor Four:Sounds like grounds for lawsuits under the RICOH Act. Go after them for the same things the MAFIA have been doing. The similarities are so glaring that Big Music (Organized Music) and Hollywood ought to be referred to as the MAFIAA. I had not considered the possibility, but on the face of it, a competent and interested federal prosecutor could very well look at all this as having RICO ramifications.
I think that it is a sad sign of the times that the **AA's have not been seriously and substantively challenged in a court of law. But that's ok, because they are already over the line and once legal action is brought against them, they will be so far over the line that it's gonna be ugly but sublime to watch. |
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Wonder if they will roll out an optional monthly payment extortion plan with interest for those that cannot afford the whole amount.
BTW, I only see statements on the letter and linked article about a $1000 or more settlement discount. So far, nothing about an actual $1000 settlement. |
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Doctor FourMy other vehicle is a TARDISPremium
join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX | reply to TScheisskopf
This is indeed what some of the RIAA lawsuit defendants
are doing - countersuing the organization under the RICOH
Act. I believe that Robert Santangelo (Elektra vs. Santangelo)
is one of those defendants planning to do this.
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"The trouble with computers, of course, is that they are very sophisticated idiots." - Doctor Who (from Robot) |
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FYI: RICOH is a copier company.
RICO is what you are looking for. |
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 JigsawStardust We ArePremium
join:2000-10-21
Cleveland, OH | reply to pmizelll
They automate extortion nice. |
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That's what I was thinking of as well. Any ISP (or any other company that I do business with for that matter) who gets caught giving up my personal information to any kind of private party (including RIAA/MPAA) without court order, subpoena or my prior written approval will be promptly sued.
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A MESSAGE to the RIAA and the MPAA: You shouldn't wound what you can't kill... |
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NormanSPremium,MVM
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I am not familiar with this "RICOH" act. I have heard that the U.S. Congress passed a "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations" (RICO) Act in 1970.
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 rogunitUhhh, Sir?Premium
join:1999-09-18
Phoenix, AZ | reply to Doctor Four
"MAFIAA"
ROTFLMAO! |
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