Asmodeus
join:2004-05-26
Spring Valley, CA
| reply to djtim21
Re: Wow
said by djtim21  :said by vpoko :The government needs to go after RIAA for racketeering, this is like the mob selling protection. No this is racketeering - "Pay now or we don't break your legs we won't sue you" Someone needs to step on them. It's like if I own a small coffee shop in a strip mall, and Starbucks wants to move in, but Starbucks comes to you and says "Pay us $3500 bucks, and we won't put you out of business". Somehow this isn't legal, but yet the *IAA's get away with it. bad analogy... because starbucks doesn't even do that... instead they go around the process and sign exclusivity deals with the holding company that owns the strip mall... therefore they legally are the only ones allowed to sell brewed coffee within the confines of the strip mall and no other retailer like them can... fast food retailers do it too... while not illegal, they are anti-competitive, but tha'ts life isn't it...
what the riaa does by setting up this mechanism is that legally you are being accused of doing something without having them go through the motions of proving in a court of law that you did... so instead, they say, "hey, absolve yourself of any wrong doing and give us the appropriate amount of money to make this go away or else..." and there you have, legalized racketeering and there isn't a damn thing anyone can do about it... the legal profession is a monopoly and every lawyer works for that monopoly regardless if they are on the side of right or wrong, prosecutor or defense... you are stuck with it and now we will see if this type of cancer within the monopoly is worth getting rid of... |
calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
| OK, so we need more careful controls on who can sue who for what? I agree.
We should adopt the legal system in use in the rest of the world except for the US--loser pays all attorney fees. That would mean the xyAAs would have to pay all attorney fees when they sue someone who wasn't illegally downloading.
Of course, that would mean that people who have been illegally downloading would pay the xyAA's legal fees as well.
calvoiper
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