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User42	Date: August 14, 2006 @ 8:18 PM check out this thread on the IIDB- http://iidb.org/vbb/showthread.php?p=3668972&posted=1#post3668972 absolutely ridiculous. it shows what evil bastards these people are.
Fraser	Date: August 14, 2006 @ 9:33 PM Hey man, Christ has nothing to do with it.
Opossum	Date: August 15, 2006 @ 12:00 AM Um, could someone please visit me and pull out all of my hair? I'd do it myself, but I'm too busy pulling out each of my toes, one by one.
Opossum	Date: August 15, 2006 @ 12:01 AM Plus I just got bit by a giant fuzzy ant and will be in pain for the next two hours. C'est la vie.
EchoMinor	Date: August 15, 2006 @ 1:40 PM RIAA = Galactic Evil Empire start emperor theme now!
TameasDust	Date: August 15, 2006 @ 3:23 PM http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060812-7487.html RIAA defendant dies, heirs given 60 days to grieve before depositions 8/12/2006 10:12:11 PM, by Anders Bylund In the case of Warner et al v. Scantlebury, yet another individual was targeted by seven record labels looking for restitution of the horrible damages inflicted by the alleged downloading of music files. Most of the case documents are not publicly available at this point, and the suit was not highly publicised until now, so it's hard to find any real detail on the charges involved. Larry Scantlebury had the temerity to die before the case was resolved, though. Again, the cause of death is unknown, but the RIAA did get a hold of a death certificate. It was filed as support for a motion to "stay the case for 60 days and extend all deadlines 60 days," filed by the record labels' lawyers. The reason for the stay request is this: "Plaintiffs do not believe it appropriate to discuss a resolution of the case with the family so close to Mr. Scantlebury's passing. Plaintiffs therefore request a stay of 60 days to allow the family additional time to grieve." How quaintly civil of them. Because the litigants believed that the case was nearing a resolution before Larry's passing, it wants to move on with the proceedings rather than drop the case, and will request depositions from his heirs after the 60-day grieving period. Considering that deceased Enron executive Ken Lay's assets may be safe from legal action after his death, the recording industry's tenacity in this case is astounding. We don't know much about Larry Scantlebury, except that he was an avid reader and a Top 1,000 reviewer on Amazon, mostly of books. We do know, however, that the RIAA continues to commit public relations blunders, and seems willing to sacrifice the credibility of an entire industry in echange for a couple of thousand dollars in settlement fees. None of this is likely to reduce piracy by any measurable amount, and the publicity might have the opposite effect as people read about these cases and then go on to see what this downloading business is all about. The legal scare tactics will have to stop at some point. A 60-day reprieve won't quite suffice.
TameasDust	Date: August 15, 2006 @ 3:29 PM http://www.ilrweb.com/viewILRPDFfull.asp?filename=warner_scantlebury_motion
JanTosh	Date: August 15, 2006 @ 4:41 PM The RIAA is nothing more than a cartel, a heartless one at that.
ChillinBuzz	Date: August 17, 2006 @ 2:01 AM the accused is dead, so should this case be also. to go after his heirs is utter bollocks - how long until the RIAA decide to go after people already passed away who they can accuse of "piracy" and, of course, then accuse their heirs of removing the evidence? better yet, if the family were unable to pay the fines levelled at their fallen members, would the RIAA dig up and auction off the coffin to recoup some of their losses? 60 days is another joke. i grieved for the loss of my sister for a long time after she died almost 13 years ago and if someone had come to me after 2 months and said something that, in my mind, would have been an insult to her memory, they'd have had their asses kicked to the four corners of the earth... in fact, do it even now after all this time and i'd probably still beat them to a pulp. and seven record labels? who are these money-swindling bastards? they should be publicly named and shamed for backing a case against the family of a now deceased music lover, especially when if put in the same position, they would go to great lengths to preserve their family's reputation, citing that the actions of one person would not be just cause for passing the blame onto their heirs. why are they taking so long to die? i swear dinosaurs passed away a lot quicker than these fucking law-changing losers. does this mean that, if the RIAA's current gang of pen-pushing, kid-suing dictators were to perish, any cases against them could be passed onto their successors? probably not.
Intergalacti...	Date: August 18, 2006 @ 4:50 PM you read that shit about them forcing that 15 year old girl? at least they got found out about that
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: August 18, 2006 @ 6:00 PM 'The seven record labels that sued Ward are Sony Music Entertainment, Inc, BMG Music, Virgin Records America, Inc., Interscope Records, Atlantic Recording Corporation, Warner Brothers Records, Inc., and Arista Records, Inc.' These record labels were involved in suing people who had used Kazaa based on some 'screenshots' taken from a 'bot' program watching Kazaa users. These 7 labels are trying to sue Yahoo, because Yahoo China's search engine included links to piracy sites: EMI, Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group Corp., Go East Entertainment Co., Gold Label Entertainment Ltd. and Cinepoly Records Co.
BlackMage	Date: August 27, 2006 @ 5:35 AM As a pacifist I feel obliged to say : Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out. The 7 death sin labels are nothing but bullshit anyway. Seriously, anyone who is waiting for PS3 isn't really thinking straight. We don't need Sony, Emi, Universal nor any other asshole corporation to ruin our lives more than they're already ruined by war and/or politics.
aflunky	Date: September 1, 2006 @ 12:07 PM Damn man! That's Just Wrong.
GeneHilbert	Date: September 1, 2006 @ 1:16 PM Well...... go figure.

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