soothsayer15
join:2002-03-01
Irving, TX
| Re: Way to go Judge! It's good that someone actually took the time to fight the lawsuit instead of paying the fine. It sucks that she didn't get a nice payday like her lawyer did, hopefully she will on the racketeering charges. Lawyers are gonna seen that dollar amount and make the RIAA and MPAA their new honeypots. I wouldn't be surprised to see someone class action coming soon. I do believe the RIAA & MPAA have legal standing to protect their copyrights, but shaking people down for the amounts there were was just an abuse of the legal system. | |
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NOCMan
Verizon Fios User
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join:2004-09-30
Flower Mound, TX | Re: Way to go Judge! That's not really a payday for the lawyer. 3 years for 108k. | |
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 | rockjock
join:2003-10-14
Salt Lake City, UT | Re: Way to go Judge! I doubt this was the only case the lawyer worked on for 3 years. | |
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RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY
| said by soothsayer15  :I do believe the RIAA & MPAA have legal standing to protect their copyrights They have no copyrights to protect - They are just a Hired Gun that work for the actual (or at least the supposed) copyright owners since the copyright owners do not want to do it themselves. Using the RIAA/MPAA allows them to be at hands distance from the actions of the **AA Gestapo and can (like on Mission Impossible) be able to disavow their actions. | |
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SRFireside
join:2001-01-19
Houston, TX
| Re: Way to go Judge! Technically the RIAA isn't suing anybody, but it's the record labels that are members of said organization that are doing the suing. Also said record labels do tend to own many copyrights of the artists they represent, which is another problem in the music industry altogether. To sum it up it is the record label's job to protect their artist so the "RIAA" doing the suing is entirely appropriate.
Of course none of this includes the fact that the one main source of exploitation and robbery of these artists are the record companies themselves. | |
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