Posted on 09/21/2008 1:44:54 PM PDT by steve-b
Over the last few years, attorney Ray Beckerman has been defending broadband users accused of copyright infringement by the RIAA, and frequently blogs about it. His blog frequently highlights instances where the RIAA has sued individuals in error, often highlighting the tenuous legal ground many RIAA cases rest on. The RIAA is now targeting Beckerman, claiming he's a "vexatious" litigator, and demanding unspecified monetary sanctions to punish him for blogging about his cases.
My irony meter just exploded.
The RIAA case is prima facie vexatious.
If this attorney is defending people against RIAA lawsuits, he can’t be “vexatious” litigator.
Not all lawyers are scum. But a big percentage of them are.
The RIAA are scum. Its amazing to me that they can sometimes get thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of dollars from someone who downloaded hundreds of dollars worth of songs. Or whose ten year downloaded something.
It’s the 98% of them that are bad. They’re giving the other 2% a bad rep.
So if they win a case, like they thought they did in Thomas, it’s perfectly OK to publicize that fact for their own ends, but if someone else publicizes details of a different trail (that are already public record anyway), that’s bad?
LOL!
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