RIAA Can't Have Defendant's Son's Desktop

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's attempt to get Ms. Lindor's son's desktop computer in UMG v. Lindor has been rejected by the Magistrate Judge. The judge said that the RIAA 'offered little more than speculation to support their request for an inspection of Mr. Raymond's desktop computer, based on ... his family relationship to the defendant, the proximity of his house to the defendant's house, and his determined defense of his mother in this case. That is not enough. On the record before me, plaintiffs have provided scant basis to authorize an inspection of Mr. Raymond's desktop computer.' Decision by Magistrate Judge Robert M. Levy. (pdf)"

Re:not supporting the RIAA

[Anonymous Coward]

Mr. Turn-X Alphonse, I think you may have infringed on my copyright. Please have your PC ready for inspection. Oh, and I want your son's PC as well just in case.

Re:Who cares?

[cyphercell]

It's frustration for an organization I despise and I enjoy that. Think of it as a feel good story on the nightly news.

Re:Artists funding this action

[Corpuscavernosa]

Good Lord. Anyone purchasing these artists should have a lawsuit brought against them. Slightly ironic that the artists helping to fund this haven't had a hit in years. I'm sure Fred Durst needs all the cash he can get at this point...

Re:Artists funding this action

[Anonymous Coward]

That's why I download all my music. Don't want to fund lawsuits against... myself.

Re:Artists funding this action

[Anonymous Coward]

Charlatans? Is that a group made up of the RIAA's lawyers?

Re:not supporting the RIAA

[cyphercell]

Glad you're not my kid, ya little brat.

Re:not supporting the RIAA

[Mydron]

I'm not supporting the inquisition but this seems wrong to me. If the person being investigated is a woman and has a cat, then shouldn't we see if she floats?

Re:Not really, because...

[init100]

But casting a very wide net and calling everyone a thief, and then when asked to produce evidence, claiming that you'd have it if you could go searching for it

Sounds exactly like SCO. :)

Re:not supporting the RIAA

[Dunbal]

shouldn't we see if she floats?

      She turned me into a newt!

      What? Well, I got better!

Re:Completely Offtopic

[joss]

For those who havent noticed, gay doesnt necessarily mean homosexual anymore, it often just means crap. I can understand that some Gays might be upset about this but that doesnt change the fact. Gay is just one of those words that changes meaning from time to time: once upon a time it meant happy, then it meant homosexual, now it means crap and at some stage in the future it will probably mean quiche or something.

Re:Not really, because...

[Finn61]

How naive!

Answered from my Blackberry at a lavish film festival.

Re:Please mod parent as trool...

[Splab]

Well according to South Park swapping music means Lars Ulrik can't get his gold plated shark tank and Britney Spears has to fly around in a Gulfstream IV - it means they get to live in slightly less luxury.

Re:not supporting the RIAA

[geminidomino]

s/that far//

That oughta do it.

Re:not supporting the RIAA

[Dragonslicer]

I don't know how many steak knives know me, but I hope I haven't pissed them off.

Re:not supporting the RIAA

[Hognoxious]

In Australia they tried doing that for theft the idea was that if One family member is a crook they all are.

Why stop at family members? Aren't all Australians [wikipedia.org]crooks?

Re:not supporting the RIAA

[QMO]

And iocane comes from Australia, as everyone knows, and Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them ...

Re:Not really, because...

[Anonymous Coward]

It's the same reason why Americans think the rest of the world is constantly having some horrific natural disaster, fighting internal wars, or attending lavish film festivals.

Or running from bulls while being pelted with tomatos.

Re:not supporting the RIAA

[Deadstick]

I've never even heard of PE for anything software related

My former employer, a California aerospace outfit, ran into something like that around 1970 when it opened a good-sized operation in Denver. There was some bit of paperwork with the city and county that involved listing the number of engineers on the payroll, and the local PE association cried foul: local ordinances forbade representing someone as an "engineer" who didn't have a PE license.

We replied that we would be delighted to come into compliance, and would they please send over eight hundred license applications, a copy of the sample test, eight hundred PE Assn membership applications, and when would their next officer election be?

Last we ever heard from them.

rj

Re:not supporting the RIAA

[Anonymous Coward]

s;s/that far//;s/ that far//;

;-)

Re:Not really, because...

[Captain Nitpick]

How naive!

Answered from my Blackberry at a lavish film festival.

Watch out for that flaming tornado riding a tsunami!