Comments on: RIAA Sues Ray Beckerman for Blogging

By: Drugshovel

Drugshovel — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Just keeps getting crazier. Sounds like they are staring to get real desperate.

By: DrewWilson

DrewWilson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ll agree to that! My jaw hit the floor when I found out about this.

By: Faethe

Faethe — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I am not seeing a response to this on Ray’s blog yet so he’s likely yet to file an answer to their suit. I think Ray might enjoy this. I don’t know why but this would appear to be the fight that he has been spoiling for. Good. I think the RIAA has bitten off more than it can chew at last. Ray is media friendly and the media should love this. Good.

By: open_universe

open_universe — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Surely the RIAA must have gone gone completely insane over the last weekend or so. Isn’t this a free speech issue? If this lawyer is posting the motions he’s been making in a court case are not those legal motions a matter of PUBLIC RECORD?

I mean WTF?!?!?!!?

By: Trencher93

Trencher93 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is strange – all lawyers all the time use out-of-court public forums (has the RIAA ever read a NEWSPAPER!?) to promote their side of a case. The RIAA doesn’t seem to do this unless that dumb comic book about file sharing counts. They’re really trying to say Beckerman has no right to influence public opinion. Surely they KNOW that he will not be intimidated by this. Surely they know that they have no case and any judge would laugh out loud at an attempt to silence free speech like this. I would be curious just exactly and precisely on what ground the RIAA thinks they have a case.

I don’t know that this isn’t beginning to backfire — isn’t file sharing increasing? Do people even care any longer?

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexatious_litigation

Funny the only vexatious people I see in this argument is the RIAA.

By: Ron Overdrive

Ron Overdrive — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Um.. so how is blogging abuse of the legal system? Especially when he criticizes cases that aren’t even his? Any judge/jury with half a brain will ask the same thing and realize this is an anti-free speech attack. If anything this may lead to the RIAA lawyers getting disbarred and I hope it does.

By: du2vye

du2vye — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Even if this case is thrown out in court the effect it could have is making people reluctant to mention opinions or news that run counter to the RIAA’s position (or any other corporation). Anyone with a blog could be served with similar papers if they quoted linked or said they agreed.

RIAA admitted the file sharing lawsuits were part of a p.r. campaign. I have little doubt this is too.

By: manakazero

manakazero — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If the RIAA is good at anything it is good at creating bad PR for itself!

By: TheRealMcCoy

TheRealMcCoy — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

RIAA reminds me of those Scientology creeps there completely stark raving mad! whats next? they gonna want to start suing you for letting friends borrow CD’S and listening to you’re MP3 player with out their written consent? … I’m really shell shocked here! I don’t know what to think = S