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[News] [Rival] RIAA Accused of Racketeering and Malicious Prosecution; Is Microsoft Next?

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] RIAA Accused of Racketeering and Malicious Prosecution; Is Microsoft Next?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:39:10 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
An Oregon Woman's Lawsuit against the RIAA, Alleging Racketeering and Malicious
Prosecution

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| however, that the RIAA is, at a minimum, very foolish to press suits 
| for purported file-sharing against unlikely defendants like Andersen - 
| who alleges that she came forward with solid proof of her innocence.
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http://writ.news.findlaw.com/ramasastry/20070628.html

There's also this new one:

Grandmother targets RIAA ‘investigators’

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| Taking a page out of Tanya Andersen’s book, Hurricane Rita survivor 
| Rhonda Crain is also targeting the RIAA practice of using
| unlicensed ‘investigators’ in its bizarre sue ‘em all marketing 
| campaign.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12674


Related:

[Mark Shuttleworth Interview]

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| Microsoft is asking people to pay them for patents, but they won't 
| say which ones. If a guy walks into a shop and says: "It's an 
| unsafe neighbourhood, why don't you pay me 20 bucks and I'll make 
| sure you're okay," that's illegal. It's racketeering. What Microsoft 
| is doing with intellectual property is exactly the same. It's a great 
| company and I have great admiration for it, but this was not a 
| well considered position.
| 
| So you wouldn't do a deal?
| 
| No, absolutely not. But the time will come when the folks at 
| Microsoft who have a clear vision for the company as a participant 
| in this community, rather than as a hostile antagonist, will win. 
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http://mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=6672

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