RIAA Mischaracterizes Letter Received From AOL 287
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In Elektra v. Schwartz, an RIAA case against a Queens woman with Multiple Sclerosis who indicates that she had never even heard of file sharing until the RIAA came knocking on her door, the judge held that Ms. Schwartz's summary judgment request for dismissal was premature because the RIAA said it had a letter from AOL 'confirm[ing] that defendant owned an internet access account through which copyrighted sound recordings were downloaded and distributed.' When her lawyers got a copy of the actual AOL letter they saw that it had no such statement in it, and asked the judge to reconsider."
Nothing to see here, please move along (Score:2, Funny)
Ms Schwartz needs... (Score:5, Funny)
Ms. Schwartz needs a stern talking to [wired.com].
Re:Sure, the **AA are evil... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sure, the **AA are evil... (Score:5, Funny)
Don't you see what the submitter is trying to say? She has a dreadful disease, therefore she can't possibly be guilty! Get with the program, dude!
Re:What can I say... (Score:5, Funny)
She is using AOL! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sure, the **AA are evil... (Score:4, Funny)
What the letter means (Score:3, Funny)
happy to see that someone else actually appreciates the Joni Mitchell collection they've complied
"172.143.208.80" on "2005-11-26" at "01:48:14 EST" is:
wondering if MSgurl2459 is really as edgey as her taste in 3-6 Mafia seems to be. Wonders if MS stands for Microsoft (ooh a cute nerd chick!)
Re:Sure, the **AA are evil... (Score:5, Funny)
if this not that
this and that
she now understands.
neuron's start popping when I go or, xor, xnor, and to some extent nand.
The problem is that in "plain 'ol english" the word or is often interpreted as xor. Really a parser error. Anyone got the wife.parser.1.1b patch?
-nB
How about something new? (Score:2, Funny)
1. If consumers like you, they will buy more of your product.
2. If you stop suing consumers, they will hate you less.
3. If you create something new, consumers will be more inclined to buy your products.
4. If you create something that's not easy to steal, people won't steal it so much.
Here's something new that I (a consumer) would LOVE to buy. The tools for this idea are already widely available and used by almost everyone.
Take a Wii with that new style nunchuck controller (or whatever it's called. The thing you wave around in the air). Add a wireless dance pad. Create a dancing game that uses foot movements and hand gestures. You know, dancing. Then put an online store for ordering additional dance tracks, game accessories, etc. Make is so you can link several of these dance mats together at a party. Make international online tournaments with prizes, titles, and a televised championship. Put them in arcades. Put them in fitness centers.
Is that a perfect idea? Hell no. Is it something I would pay $600.00 for this Christmas? Hell yes.
Re:They are (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sure, the **AA are evil... (Score:5, Funny)
Attribution is no excuse.
The fact is, you did steal that argument.
Think of all the karma-starved slashdot posters - how are slashdot posters going to feed their families if they can't be compensated with the karma they deserve for the work they do?
Re:Sure, the **AA are evil... (Score:3, Funny)
Exactly, She is the liar (Score:0, Funny)
The RIAA simply said AOL confirmed she does have an account and was using the IP account from which they traced stolen music.
She and her lawyer need to come up with more BS to explain her claims of being internet ignorant. I am guessing they will try the virus excuse; A virus set her up with AOL and stole the music.
Sorry guys, but the RIAA is not going after innocent people. They can get sued for that.
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Re:What a bunch... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sure, the **AA are evil... (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, it's cake or death... (Score:5, Funny)
I believe that Eddie Izzard [wikiquote.org] asked it best, "Cake or Death"?
Re:Original quote with sloppy sentence constructio (Score:3, Funny)
Seriously, this is exactly why lawyers and judge should debate in PROLOG, or any Turing complete programming language. Except Perl, it would make matters worse.
Re:Oops (Score:4, Funny)
That is correct - they only have one customer left now.
Re:Nothing to see here, please move along (Score:4, Funny)
Are you kidding? We'll correct you even if you're right!
Re:Sure, the **AA are evil... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Sure, the **AA are evil... (Score:3, Funny)
There's no rollback option - I'm just stuck waiting for a 2.0 release. My support contract for 1.x doesn't cover this upgrade, so it's going to be hugely expensive. If you've got a functional 1.0, stick with it - just work around the parser bugs.
-Graham