solitaire
April 22nd, 2009, 03:31 AM
It looks like the RIAA is about to "jump the shark" big time!
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/21/2041241
RIAA Brief Attacks Free Software Foundation
The RIAA has requested permission to file a response (http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html#8985078307713769404) to the amicus curiae brief (http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/20/2129208&tid=123) filed by the Free Software Foundation in SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum (http://beckermanlegal.com/Documents.htm#SONY_v_Tenenbaum), the Boston case against a Boston University grad student accused of having downloaded some song files when in his teens. In their proposed response, the RIAA lawyers personally attacked The Free Software Foundation, Ray Beckerman (NewYorkCountryLawyer), and NYCL's blog, 'Recording Industry vs. The People'. The 9-page response (http://beckermanlegal.com/pdf/?file=/Lawyer_Copyright_Internet_Law/sony_tenenbaum_090421PltffsBriefRespondFSFBrief.pd f) (PDF) — 4 pages longer than the document to which it was responding — termed the FSF an organization 'dedicated to eliminating restrictions on copying, redistribution, and modifying computer programs', and accused the FSF of having an 'open and virulent bias against copyrights' and 'blatant bias' against the record companies. They called 'Recording Industry vs. The People' an 'anti-recording industry web site' and stated that NYCL 'is currently subject to a pending sanctions motion (http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/08/2041255&tid=123) for his conduct in representing a defendant' (without disclosing that plaintiffs' lawyers were 'subject to a pending motion for Rule 11 sanctions (http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html#6420342518754596429) for their conduct in representing plaintiffs' in that very case).
This is the quote that's really interesting
— termed the FSF an organization 'dedicated to eliminating restrictions on copying, redistribution, and modifying computer programs', and accused the FSF of having an 'open and virulent bias against copyrights' and 'blatant bias' against the record companies.
That is *NOT* what the Free Software Foundation is all about.
http://www.fsf.org/about/
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/21/2041241
RIAA Brief Attacks Free Software Foundation
The RIAA has requested permission to file a response (http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html#8985078307713769404) to the amicus curiae brief (http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/20/2129208&tid=123) filed by the Free Software Foundation in SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum (http://beckermanlegal.com/Documents.htm#SONY_v_Tenenbaum), the Boston case against a Boston University grad student accused of having downloaded some song files when in his teens. In their proposed response, the RIAA lawyers personally attacked The Free Software Foundation, Ray Beckerman (NewYorkCountryLawyer), and NYCL's blog, 'Recording Industry vs. The People'. The 9-page response (http://beckermanlegal.com/pdf/?file=/Lawyer_Copyright_Internet_Law/sony_tenenbaum_090421PltffsBriefRespondFSFBrief.pd f) (PDF) — 4 pages longer than the document to which it was responding — termed the FSF an organization 'dedicated to eliminating restrictions on copying, redistribution, and modifying computer programs', and accused the FSF of having an 'open and virulent bias against copyrights' and 'blatant bias' against the record companies. They called 'Recording Industry vs. The People' an 'anti-recording industry web site' and stated that NYCL 'is currently subject to a pending sanctions motion (http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/08/2041255&tid=123) for his conduct in representing a defendant' (without disclosing that plaintiffs' lawyers were 'subject to a pending motion for Rule 11 sanctions (http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html#6420342518754596429) for their conduct in representing plaintiffs' in that very case).
This is the quote that's really interesting
— termed the FSF an organization 'dedicated to eliminating restrictions on copying, redistribution, and modifying computer programs', and accused the FSF of having an 'open and virulent bias against copyrights' and 'blatant bias' against the record companies.
That is *NOT* what the Free Software Foundation is all about.
http://www.fsf.org/about/