Targets 3 more in the New York area alone.
I don’t think anybody really bought into the RIAA’s proclamation last December that it had decided to quit suing suspected file-sharers, and the evidence keeps piling up that it’s for good reason.
For I reported this past March about how it filed a copyright infringement case against Shaun Adams in the Federal District Court in Omaha, Nebraska. The RIAA accuses him of illegally “making available” 9 copyrighted audio files using Limewire back in 2007.
Once again Ray Beckerman of Recording Industry vs the People has done a bit of investigating and found three in just the New York area alone.
“I’ve been receiving reports from around the country of new RIAA cases against individuals being filed,” he says in a blog post. “Just for the heck of it I took a look to see whether the RIAA had filed new cases against individuals in April, in the Eastern District of New York and Southern District of New York. I found 1 in the Southern District, 2 in the Eastern District.”
Now RIAA head Mitch Bainwol has said previously that the RIAA would not initiate any new file-sharing cases, and merely finish those already in progress. The cutoff date was said to have been last August however, and a number of the cases, such as these most recent one, weren’t even filed yet.
So I think it’s safe to say the whole “no more lawsuits” promise is pretty much meaningless, and belies the letter it sent Congress saying it had “discontinued our broad-based end user litigation program against illegal downloading on peer-to-peer (p2p) networks.”
“We are delighted that circumstances have evolved to the point where we could transition from lawsuits to these ISP graduated response programs,” RIAA Chairman and CEO Mitch Bainwol wrote.
Guess the RIAA’s still in “transition.”
Stay tuned.
jared@zeropaid.com
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I believe they said they where going to follow though with the cases they’ve already filed. So, let’s not judge to soon. Maybe that have stopped new cases.
The only reason they were backpedaling in the first place was because a law professional was threating to exposure their tactics as unconstitutional.
The RIAA is a blood-sucking obsolete appendage of the dead recording industry. Face it RIAA: you could stop all the fileshaers on USA property and you would still have the rest of the world sharing the same music that you have no legal claim to. I LOVE IT!!! I love watching the recording industry crumble and squirm. The pompous recording artists who seem to think we owe them a living are learning the truth and they don’t like it. TOO BAD!!! Keep sharing music online and the RIAA will eventually go away. Mark Montgomery boboberg@nyc.rr.com
RIAA is nothing but a joke preying on the wrong people. Their evil corporation will suffer great losses for being assholes.
RIAA want money.
obviously that’s what its all about, not anything about music that’s for damn sure. keeping people with big dreams that they can be a superstar and be rich like a Yankee ball player.
they lie, say they will stop the lawsuits, when in reality nothing is stopping them from getting cronies to write a legal document that will net them another 3k….its pathetic