RIAA Sued For Amnesty Offer

[lazarus]

update A day after the Recording Industry Association of America filed a slew of lawsuits against alleged illegal song swappers, it became the target of legal action over its own "amnesty" program.
California resident Eric Parke, on behalf of the general public of the state, filed a suit Tuesday against the trade association because of its amnesty, or "Clean Slate," program, a provisional shield it introduced Monday that allows people to avoid legal action by stepping forward and forfeiting any illegally traded songs. The suit, filed in the Marin Superior Court of California, charges that the RIAA's program is a deceptive and fraudulent business practice.

It is "designed to induce members of the general public...to incriminate themselves and provide the RIAA and others with actionable admissions of wrongdoing under penalty of perjury while (receiving)...no legally binding release of claims...in return," according to the complaint.



"This lawsuit seeks a remedy to stop the RIAA from engaging in unlawful, misleading and fraudulent business practices," the suit reads.

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[madrchsod]

1. checked zeropaid just now

there`s a fund that has pledged 1500 dollars for the 12 year old..this thing just blew up in the riaa face..isn`t there a republican hack running it,hmmmm..i think there is.

[starroute]

4. Is that fund different than this fund?

http://libra.lunarpages.com/~realto3/Brianna/index.php

This one claims $2130 in pledges.

[NekoChris]

2. HA HA HA HA HA

BURN RIAA! BURN!!

*finger wiggle*

KARMA FOR YOUR SINS!

[Nottingham]

3. Now THAT is FREAKIN AWESOME!.....and KARMA!

:bounce:

[Sterling]

5. We will all be better off when the music industry is destroyed

Anyone who has worked in "the biz" and is not an asshole understands how much damage the industry has done to our culture. I submit that the dumbing down that has taken place since the biz went completely corporate helped pave the way for W>

By lowering expectations as to what qualifies as talent the industry prepared us for lower expectations from our leaders, thus we have Bush, the most unqualified pResident in history.

This is by no means the only way that the music industry has hurt our culture. The industry treats artists unfairly similarly to how the movie biz used to treat actors. Essentially labels “own” recording artists in a very anti free market contract arrangement that discourages competition and ensures corporate labels have a monopoly on what music gets played on the air.

The way things are now the corporate monolithic music machine could play fart sounds on the radio and still have such exclusive access to the market place they would make a profit.

Additionally the industry is bloated with unnecessary employees who leach of the system. If the RIAA really cared about “stealing” music they would have to fire every single employee in the system as that is where most of the product is lost through employees stealing product.

I have not paid for music for over ten years simply because label employees are more than happy to “trade” product amongst each other and friends outside the biz and charge it to the artists account.

The RIAA is desperate to keep the scam they perpetrate on consumers they are willing to sue children to do so.

As long as the industry exists inn it’s current form we will be paying far too much for inferior product. Many people are so naïve they actually believe this is about “stealing".