Recording Industry on the defensive - at last

topic posted Mon, March 17, 2008 - 9:36 AM by  Cliff
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RIAA facing charges of racketeering, fraud, spying.
Tonya Anderson turns up the heat on the recording industry.


The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) (here: tinyurl.com/3h57w) Initiated a law suit against Tonya Anderson an Oregon woman for piracy. Ms Anderson’s response was not merely to defend but to go on the offensive counter suing the RIAA alleging racketeering as the foundation for a tort charges of invasion of privacy, abuse of process, electronic trespass, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, negligent misrepresentation, the tort of "outrage", and deceptive business practices.. Ms Anderson’s amended complaint is here: tinyurl.com/2upsk6. She names several defendants: Atlantic Recording Corporation; Priority Records, LLC; Capitol Records, Inc.; Umg Recordings, Inc.; BMG Music; Recording Industry Association of America; Safenet, Inc.; Media Sentry, Inc.; And Settlement Support Center, LLC. (here: tinyurl.com/39qgpx ) for tactics the entities used as part of an RIAA anti-piracy campaign.

Ms Anderson and her team of trial lawyers (that group every one loves to hate) are seeking to have her matter segregated and elevated to a class action against the RISS on behalf of all persons upon the RIAA has been spying and deceiving.

Ms. Anderson’s first response was a mere countersuit (her complaint here: tinyurl.com/3xoe7v ) when the RIAA launched it’s suit against her claiming that she had unlawfully downloaded copyrighted material. However, Ms Anderson and her team of trial lawyers (that group every one loves to hate) are seeking to have her matter severance of her case and to have it made into a class action against the RISS on behalf of all persons upon the RIAA has been spying and deceiving.

One of Ms Anderson’s team of Trial Lawyers goals is t0 use the discovery process to get a clear picture of how extensive and penetrating the RIAA’s invasions of privacy has been throughout the industry’s efforts to defend copyrights.

Ms Anderson’s Trial Lawyers aver that her defendants broke the law by electronically ransacking legally protected private information, using illegal methods of data gathering unlawful collection tactics for copyrighted material they claim she downloaded.
She is also averring that the industry abuse the legal procvess by suing upon information obtained in violation of law.
This new phase in copyright litigation where the defendants take the recording industry to task for illegal methods is a new and exciting phase of the process.

Groups such as this: tinyurl.com/az7bw have been quick to praise her efforts. ( here is more: tinyurl.com/363an2)
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Cliff
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