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[BostonGeek] Obviously I am no fan of the RIAA, and it’s nice to see someone put them on trial for the racketeering sons of bitches they are.
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[Pri.me.uk] GromBlog : My Mom never saw the irony in calling me a "Son-of-a ...: This guys mom hoards more pointless trash than anyone I've ever seen before - she buys things from eBay for no reason and has filled her house - and I DO mean filled - several times over, so much so that there is only one room that's still vaguely habitable! Not worth visiting on a 56k modem as there are over 5Mb of photos to see.
[Onlisareinsradar.com] On Lisa Rein's Radar: RIAA Death Throes Archives: He requested copies of all of the subpoenas filed by the RIAA and "a description of the methodology the RIAA is using to secure evidence of potentially illegal file sharing by computer users." According to an interview with Senator Coleman in Future Tense Now Magazine, Coleman's worried about the disproportionate penalties being proposed by the RIAA (at $100,000 per song) for the kinds of copyright infringement that file sharing sometimes involves. "My concern is to make sure that the penalty fits the crime," Coleman said, "And that in the end, we're not wiping out some families' savings because some kid downloaded, for his own use, some songs over the Internet."
[Transbuddha.com] Transbuddha : We Make the Internet Your Bitch: as a novel strategy, Scimeca is citing federal racketeering laws like .For those of you unaware, the RIAA has a nasty hobby .
[Wizbangblog.com] Wizbang: She's suing under the Racketeering Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), claiming that the RIAA's practice of sending out "nasty-grams" to file-sharers, asking the accused to settle or be sued, amounts to extortion:
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Posted at October 03, 2005 09:54 AM
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