Help To Fight The RIAA
Written by Ernesto on April 14, 2006I have NO words to describe the RIAA’s latest actions.
Targeting children, single mothers, and other people who have no clue what they did wrong. The RIAA precisely selects its prey, the less money, the better. Everything that’s vulnerable is perfect. Completely ignorant to the fact that peoples lives are completely RUINED.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not advocating piracy here, I just want people to know that the RIAA is acting totally out of line here. Come on, how low can they get?
Most victims have absolutely NO clue, hardly know how a computer works, have NO money to fight back, and have NO life left.
To illustrate how desperate people get, read this email that Ray Beckerman, who’s representing a number of RIAA victims, received from the father of one the RIAA’s latest victims.
I am being sued by the RIAA for copyright infringement, and the case has been going on for the past 2 years.
So far they have deposed all 5 of my children, and my wife, and myself. I also had to fill out admissions and interrogatory answers twice so far and they are still not satisfied with my answers. Most of them I answered that I did not know. I did not know, and was completely unaware of whatever the RIAA is claiming happened. My responses were honest, but that was not good enough for them.
I am defending myself in this case because I can’t afford a lawyer, and it’s hard for me to understand all of the paperwork and the rules of the court. The RIAA is on its 6th different group of lawyers. It seems like they are bottom feeders.
I was just in court in Philadelphia with the RIAA’s Philadelphia representative.
I had been called into court by the judge, Judge Cynthia Rufe, because I had not responded to the RIAA’s second motion to compel even more discovery.
The judge gave me additional time to send in the paperwork, and stated that she intends to set up a trial date sometime in May.
The real shame is that I had no knowledge of any of this until I was served in the mail. Apparently my daughter who was 12 years old at the time had been listening to music on Kazaa
I do not even know how it got on the computer.
I know that I didn’t do anything wrong and I am going to defend myself, but I’m scared to death of the outcome.
You can HELP!, support the battle by donating to the Fight Goliath Fund
Patti is the New York working mother with five children who’s decided she’s not caving in to Sony BMG, Vivendi Universal, Warner Music or EMI, the multi-billion-dollar members of the Organized Music cartel which has been trying to extort ’settlement’ money from her, and more than 17,000 others like her, including school kids.
Help Patti take on Organized Music on and ultimately, it’ll help everyone around the world.
Donate using this button if you want to help. Let’s Do something, every 50cent is worth it.
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Happens all the time unfortunately…
yeah, but that’s because the people that are being sued cannot afford a proper defence.
Don’t let them get rich by forcing people to pay settlement money
If you want to fight the RIAA, stop listening to RIAA music and tell the bands why you boycott them. Vote with your money and do it loudly. You won’t win in court, thats their playground and they already bought all the laws they need to screw you there.
Make it known to the public. You buy a CD, but you’re not allowed to rip it to your MP3 player? The public NEEDS to know.
Boycott the RIAA. And the MPAA while we’re at it.
It’s our freedom at stake again. This is a recurring theme you’ll see for the rest of your life unless we do something about it.
Boycott.
The main problem this ‘innocent’ woman has is that she allows her children to go online UNSUPERVISED.
So if they run up some bills or break the law in whatever way, SHE is ultimately responsible. end of story.
‘I don’t even know how it got on there’ - talking about Kazaa. Well you allowed a 12yr old to use a PC online you pathetic moron.
She is to blame if anyone is, not her children. Notice this though: Not content withteaching her kids nothing about online security(which as we all know is a majorly important thing in these days of chatroom pedophiles etc), she is now teching her kids that she and they, are blameless. Not willing to admit to her incompetence she gleefully starts a campaign and all the while her kids think it’s great!!
Lock her up soon please. I wouldn’t give her a broken penny.
Boycott her site!
HitmeWithIt you are a complete a$$ Hole. You should just keep your mouth shut since you have absolutely no feelings towards others. Maybe you should go jump off a building head first and do the world a favor by landing on the RIAA lawyers before hitting the ground yourself.
Just ignore the comments by HitmeWithIt. He’s am RIAA plant.
HitmeWithIt Your’re right….wtf…teh man can afford a pc…how about the people who don’t have to eat the next day…and the children that have no mother or father..at what age are they going to listen to music on Kazaa and break the law???
Poisanous.
What about the people that talk a lot about all the unjust things in this world but don’t do anything?
If you don’t support it, fine. Donate your money somewhere else. Some people just want to fight for more than one thing. It’s not about who has the saddest story, it’s about doing something, standing up for things you believe in.
Since no one has taken the time too yet, allow me to completely and utterly debunk you’re “insightful” comments there Hitmewithit.
Perhaps you werent aware of this, but older people, you know, those from a different generation than myself and presumably you, didnt grow up with computers. In addition, not every single profession is completely tied into computers as one who works with them would think. Its ludicrous(sp?) to expect someone working to feed their family to learn enough about the absolute behement that is now the internet to properly understand it. Additionally, who the F##K has 3 hours to sit and “Supervise” their child as they’re using the internet? Are you independantly wealthy? Did mommy and daddy buy everything for you? Between work and commute my parents put in 16 hour days, and thats before they’ve eaten dinner or showered. If i was 12 years old, they’d have to be superhuman to “supervise” me on the internet.
Oh, I Know what you’re thinking now, “Well, then they shouldnt have it”.
Well, thats similarly as asinine. The internet is an amazing tool for learning, communications, and just plain fun. Its impossible to live your life without it at this point, at least at the level of comfort society has come to expect in their daily Lives.
Well, in conclusion, B**ch somewhere else mongrel, and have a nice day.
Wow, Lots of typo’s above. to*, Behemoth*, probably alot of others.
So you’re essentially saying: it’s OK to steal music if you’re poor/a single mother?
*if* those people are guilty of downloading music, why should the suing not apply to them? Parents are responsible for their children, it doesn’t matter whether they know what’s going on or not.
I download music like mosst people do, but I don’t try to excuse it as anything other than not paying for something that I should be paying for.
The most useful thing you can donate is your time. At http://livejournal.5gigs.com/index.html there is a script that continously downloads images off riaa.com, consuming their bandwidth. The best thing about this is that it is not in technical terms a ddos attack, as the script stops working before the website goes down. Lets make the riaa pay for more bandwidth.
HitmeWithIt is ignorant, probably single with no children and spends all his time on the internet. That’s also why he thinks he’s better than all the parents out there, whereas KnowitSteve shows how reality is for most parents.
We need that image in HIGH RES!!
Its time for anarchy against the capitalist RIAA.
The RIAA has the best law possible to go after these unfortunate victims. The RIAA paid a lot of politicians to pass these laws that the RIAA wrote.
I don’t countenance copyright infringement. But the phrase “an eye for an eye” has a meaning in our law. You don’t take a hundred eyes for one. All you get is the value of what was taken. Not a threat of seven years in jail, not a threat of $250,000 per track downloaded.
The RIAA are a bunch of thugs who continually short change the artists, frequently paying them nothing. They have more cooked law that pretty much prevents the artists from even getting an audit of what the record companies should pay the artists.
The parents may have some civil liability, but that should be limited to actual value, not the insane fines and incredibly multiplied values that the RIAA and its ilk have paid to be made part of law. After all, the parents may have been negligent, by they had no intent.
“The RIAA paid a lot of politicians to pass these laws that the RIAA wrote.”
That statement implies there are some politicians the RIAA hasn’t bought. Look it up, every elected politician voted for the DMCA, copyright extensions and other draconian laws.
link
Get out and vote NO INCUMBENT this fall.
livejournal.5gigs.com/index.html
Fuck The RIAA
Well i say down load n download some more :) go to http://livejournal.5gigs.com/index.html and keep it running all day ;long :)
Stealing music? BULLS**T!!
If you had a car and I stole it, you wouldn’t have the car anymore. If I copied a music track you would still have that track, hence no loss of ownership.
But the law is the law. It is utterly wrong and I disagree with it, but it is the law.
“The law is the moral consensus of THE PEOPLE” i.e. Not corporations, who, let me just check…. yeah, are NOT people!
It’s fine though, the RIAA’s actions are helping the music industry and killing corporations more than any of us can do.
Check out epitonic.com for some cool free tunes.
Check out the band “Clap your hands say yeah!” All their stuff is free.
My own band “City in the Sky” will soon be releasing ALL our stuff online for people to use, rip-off whatever, however they want. If someone wants to try and make money from music I created then HA! because you can get it for FREE from me!
If someone wants to improve it and do a better version, awesome, the song’s better.
Modern buildings are essentially works of art, perhaps we should pay a licence to be able to “look” at these buildings, that is equivalent to the s**t the RIAA pull.
And everyone the RIAA represents releases repetetive and formulated music, it’s just a product, it isn’t art, i don’t want it!!
The best things in life are free!
The law is the law if it is wrong or not. As long as these laws exist we are forced to live by them. The fact that the RIAA is going after the weak is wrong and cold hearted but in the end the law is the law. I don’t agree with it but the most you can do is boycott and elect another person to office who will change the laws. Even if the parents supervise their kids online activities, the parents might be ignorant themselves. Also downloading does not hurt the music industry. CD sales are down because of online music providers such as itunes and Rhapsody.
Because no one is doing anything the RIAA can keep up this piracy spree.
http://livejournal.5gigs.com/index.html
The RIAA is doing this purely from a business perspective. This is not personal, it’s about stopping kids from downloading. The more PR it gets the better for them. Lots of families *have* stopeed downloading because of these lawsuits, so it’s been very successful for them. The only way to stop the suits is to make it unprofitable for the RIAA. If you think it’s wrong, then do indeed vote with your wallet.
I don’t avocate stealing (or maybe I do in this case) but lets face the facts, the music industry SUCKS and has for years. You pay up to $20 for a CD (same price as a freakin DVD!) and the CD only has 1 or 2 good songs on it! I know you can go on itunes (which is what I do) but sueing someone for $10,000 is freakin insane! Where are they suppose to get that kind of money? I haven’t bought a RIAA labeled CD in 5 years! I miss some of the music but oh well, better than supporting a bunch of A-holes. Parents are ignorant of computer use by their teenagers, its not right that they should be at fault for not installing proper firewall software or something like that.
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