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RIAA sued for extortion and racketeering
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| 2/18/2004
| John Borland
Posted on 02/18/2004 7:51:27 PM PST by plain talk
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To: plain talk
About time a backlash on RIAA occurred. Hooray!
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posted on
02/18/2004 7:59:58 PM PST
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: plain talk
Anyone know how to get in touch with Mr. Lombardo? I smell a class-action.
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posted on
02/18/2004 8:07:53 PM PST
by
Houmatt
(Justice For Carlie!)
To: Houmatt
Yes, information please.
My IP sold me out to the RIAA months ago.
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posted on
02/18/2004 8:09:53 PM PST
by
LisaMalia
(In Memory of Sgt. James W. Lunsford..KIA 11-29-69 Binh Dinh S. Vietnam)
To: lilylangtree
Backlash? One case? ....more like twenty lashes with a wet noodle. Seems to me that some of these perps want to change the subject.
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posted on
02/18/2004 8:13:18 PM PST
by
Banjoguy
(Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.)
To: plain talk
The lawsuit will fail. It's an idiotic concept. But of course that's never stopped people from filing lawsuits before.
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posted on
02/18/2004 8:16:47 PM PST
by
flashbunny
(Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.)
To: flashbunny
The lawsuit will fail. It's an idiotic concept. Are you a lawyer? Or do you just play one on FreeRepublic?
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posted on
02/18/2004 8:29:52 PM PST
by
ProudGOP
To: flashbunny
Your probably right, but as long as it keeps the goons at RIAA busy enough to stop them from molesting more 12 year olds then its all good :)
Maybe it'll even give them some time to think about their blatant price gouging, well and pigs may fly too :/
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posted on
02/18/2004 8:31:24 PM PST
by
battousai
(Coming Soon to an election near you: Pasty White Hillary and the Nine umm Three? Dwarfs!)
To: Banjoguy
What subject might that be? Downloading songs off of the internet for personal use?
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posted on
02/18/2004 8:56:42 PM PST
by
Houmatt
(Justice For Carlie!)
To: flashbunny
The lawsuit will fail. It's an idiotic concept. But of course that's never stopped people from filing lawsuits before.
Frivolous lawsuits are a dime a dozen..(so to speak). Coffee spills, trips in Walmart, and the like.
I think being sold out by a company that you pay your hard earned money to is worth some hard fought litigation. Isn't that what "civil liberty" is all about? Or does that only apply to liberal causes?
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posted on
02/18/2004 9:04:03 PM PST
by
LisaMalia
(In Memory of Sgt. James W. Lunsford..KIA 11-29-69 Binh Dinh S. Vietnam)
To: LisaMalia
Which company sold you out? I am curious.
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posted on
02/18/2004 9:08:54 PM PST
by
Houmatt
(Justice For Carlie!)
To: Houmatt
My internet provider....:)
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posted on
02/18/2004 9:20:32 PM PST
by
LisaMalia
(In Memory of Sgt. James W. Lunsford..KIA 11-29-69 Binh Dinh S. Vietnam)
To: flashbunny
The lawsuit will fail. It's an idiotic concept. But of course that's never stopped people from filing lawsuits before.
That depends, the RIAA has already been found guilty in a court of law for price fixing.
To: plain talk
BTTT!!
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posted on
02/18/2004 10:20:30 PM PST
by
Lael
(Patent Law...not a single Supreme Court Justice is qualified to take the PTO Bar Exam!)
To: Houmatt
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posted on
02/18/2004 10:35:25 PM PST
by
NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
(Michael <a href = "http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
To: Paul C. Jesup
Technically they were not found guilty. They agreed to give states and the lawyers and out of court settlement into the millions. The consumers were "promised" a check (if they didn't get a whole lot of responses to the offer for a free check, no questions asked). Consumers didn't get a check.
Since it was an out of court settlement, they were not found guilty in a court of law of price fixing. We all know they did.
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posted on
02/18/2004 11:08:27 PM PST
by
weegee
(Election 2004: Re-elect President Bush... Don't feed the trolls.)
To: weegee
I heard different, that they lost the case.
But anyway, the RIAA is guilty of so much more than what is listed in this lawsuit.
To: ProudGOP
Are you a lawyer? Or do you just play one on FreeRepublic?I am and I've actually gone to trial on several Civil RICO suits over the last 15 years. The case doesn't stand a chance unless they can show that RIAA has engaged in a pattern of racketeering activity, which typically requires one or more schemes to commit fraud supported by at least two predicate acts (i.e. mail and/or wire fraud) commited within the previous ten years, that would have continued indefinately if the scheme had not been uncovered. I don't see the fraud or the predicate acts that are absolutely necessary under the RICO Act for simply suing people for stealing music in violation of the Copyright Laws and then offering to settle with them for a fraction of what they could be liable for if their cases went to trial.
To: Labyrinthos
1) Downloading a song for your personal use is not a violation of copyright laws.
2) The RIAA has demanded internet service providers turn over their membership rolls for the sole purpose of filing lawsuits against people who are not doing anything wrong.
3) The people sued by and large are not in a position to fight back from a lawsuit of this kind and so they are forced to settle out of court, and the RIAA knows it.
Are you familiar with the grandmother that was sued in the first round of lawsuits? The RIAA insisted on suing her even though she did not even own a personal computer. They were forced to drop the suit but strongly hinted they might refile it in the future. And you are telling me this is not extortion tactics?
Sorry, but you are dead wrong on this one.
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posted on
02/19/2004 9:16:35 AM PST
by
Houmatt
(Justice For Carlie!)
To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
This is where you can find contact information on Mr. Lombardo.
I wonder if you have to put up any money to make it a class action lawsuit....?
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posted on
02/19/2004 9:24:34 AM PST
by
Houmatt
(Justice For Carlie!)
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