Have you Received Your $13 from the RIAA? 87
bluephone asks: "The recent story about how the RIAA is scamming around their court approved settlement, I was reminded about the fact that they owe me money. During the registration period, I filed my claim for reimbursement, and my mother did too. They site claims that "Payments will be mailed to Music Purchasers who filed valid claims beginning on February 20, 2004 and two weeks should be allowed for delivery." It uses the future tense because it hasn't been updated since February 19, the day before the mailings were due to start. Well, it's been over 5 months, and neither myself, my mother, nor anyone I know has received their payment. And the only way to inquire about it is via a Post Office Box mailing address. So I ask you, oh Slashdot userbase, have you received your RIAA price fixing settlements?"
Months ago... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Months ago... (Score:1, Redundant)
-Bill
Re:Months ago... (Score:1)
Re:Months ago... (Score:5, Funny)
I got mine. (Score:1)
Nope... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nope... (Score:1)
ZAMFIR
MASTER OF THE PAN FLUTE
(the guy is hardcore, seriously)
Expired actually (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Expired actually (Score:2)
I haven't received mine either! (Score:1)
I got mine (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I got mine (Score:2)
Yep (Score:4, Funny)
you, sir, are a pirate in the truest of senses (Score:2)
arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
for our matey !
Would have been better if... (Score:4, Interesting)
you missed the fine print (Score:5, Funny)
I didn't sign up, myself. I just downloaded U2's latest off Kazzaaaaza and then hit alt-D until I had about 100 copies
Re:Yup. (Score:1, Offtopic)
They were screwing me (Score:4, Funny)
1,300 PENNIES!
Damn them, I almost broke my back.
Re:They were screwing me (Score:1)
(FYI, a penny weighs about 2.5 grams)
Re:They were screwing me (Score:2)
yes and no (Score:4, Interesting)
They knew I would hunt them down... (Score:1)
I got mine (Score:2, Funny)
I got mine, so did other slashdotters (Score:1)
One Man's Check From The RIAA [slashdot.org]
My friend actually accidentally ripped mine in half, the bank still accepted it though.
Yup (Score:2)
My wife and I received them in May (Score:1)
I got mine a while ago (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I got mine a while ago (Score:3, Insightful)
Probably not. OP is likely nit-picking... The RIAA do not themselves sell CDs, but rather their members do. And their members don't generally sell CDs to individuals. They sell CDs to distributors who sell them to stores who sell them to individuals. So OP could truthfully state that he "never bought a CD from the RIAA" and be exactly correct while still being entitled to a settlement check.
Yes (Score:2)
yup (Score:2)
Yup (Score:2)
Nope... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Nope... (Score:2)
I'm sick of people refering to the RIAA as if they are a company that sells CDs or something. They are a handfull of office people that hand out plaques to people that sell X numbers of albums or singles, put MA labels if there's profanity within an album. The rest of the staff at the RIAA are lawyers. The RIAA does not care if you "steal" music, buy albums, or pose for goatse picture
Re:Nope... (Score:2)
So exactly what penalty did they pay?
The RIAA represents these companies and since these companies are huge and have lots of money, they can afford to throw tons of lawyers at anything they wish to effect. You can rail all day about the fact that they "cannot get a real job" (and I agree with you), but they make more money and have more influence
Re:Nope... (Score:2)
Expiration date. (Score:5, Informative)
They are marked Void after 120 days.
Re:Expiration date. (Score:3, Interesting)
As long as it has a routing number and account and there are funds to withdraw the check is valid.
In some states it is illegal to have date-voiding checks.
Re:Expiration date. (Score:2)
I think checks should be void after 90 days, personally. I was considering having that put on my checks...
Re:Expiration date. (Score:2)
Okay, thanks for clearing that up.
I got mine, others did too... (Score:2)
SoCal... (Score:2)
Nope (Score:2)
I won't take their money (Score:4, Insightful)
I will say that I do not care. If the justice system ever gets fixed and the corporate corruption eliminated, I may have a claim again. Like that will happen, but I don't believe in any system where you have a lawyer that you don't hire in a case you did not file decide the amount of your claim that you may or may not know about to collect on an opt-out basis.
I get no settlement, I have no legal right to sue, and I never signed a single contract.
God Bless America
Re:I won't take their money (Score:2)
(I signed up and got my $13)
Re:I won't take their money (Score:2)
Re:I won't take their money (Score:1)
Re:I won't take their money (Score:2)
What did you think I was talking about? You must know about the suit you didn't bring, AND opt-out to retain your right to sue. Even then you may not get your "claim" if you don't opt-out from the suit. Sounds like a system that favors the lawyers and the defendants if you ask me.
Of course I wouldn't win if I brought a lawsuit. The system is far to corrupt to allow me to collect
got it (Score:2)
I guess this is fair.... (Score:1)
Say what? (Score:5, Funny)
I go mine (Score:2)
Went to Newbury Comics and bought a CD with it the next day...
Re:I go mine (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I go mine (Score:2)
another "me too" (Score:1)
Didn't get it yet. (Score:2)
CDRs (Score:3, Funny)
new poll (Score:3, Insightful)
Have you received your $13 from the RIAA?
[X] Yes
[ ] Yes, but I gave it right back buying CDs
[ ] No
[ ] No, but I did receive 173 copies of 'Yanni does Kenny G's greatest hits'
This is an article? (Score:2)
Yup (Score:1)
Be careful who to blame (Score:3)
Chances are they mailed the checks months ago and some postman has already cashed them.
I know what to spend my $13 on!!!! (Score:1)
I did (Score:2, Funny)
Yes, I received it... (Score:2)
I have to say though that during the long, long wait, I was really impressed by how dead that website was and how impossible it was going to be to straighten things out or prove I had actually signed up for it, if the check didn't arrive. I thought I had saved a screenshot somewhere, but I hadn't.
Several months ago (Score:2)
Dear $name,
blah blach blah yadda yadda.
Love, Greg Abbott
Texas Attorney General
Sure, I could have bought something cool with it, but instead I used the money to do laundry that weekend.
Got mine too (Score:2)
(I immediately spent mine on independently produced music from CD Baby. Take that!)
I didnt sign my rights away (Score:2)
hrm (Score:2)
Oh yeah... (Score:2)
...received and spent months ago. Maybe they applied your check to the price of the music you pirated.