RIAA Not Done With Jesse Jordan

digime writes "In a recent Slashdot article it was reported that 19-year-old college student Jesse Jordan gave up his life savings to the RIAA for running a campus search engine. He has recovered over 83% of his savings lost to the RIAA, and his search engine is back up. "The RIAA started yelling and tried to rescind my order of dismissal after they signed it because of comments that I made on CNN.", Jordan says on his site. "A very well-known top lawyer at the RIAA, while making threats of further legal actions, referred to himself as a 'dentist' that I would not want to 'have another visit with'"

Yeah!

[AntiOrganic]

Stick it to the man!

...so you can lose all your money again.

Dentist... how appropriate

[Anonymous Coward]

I think it is time for someone to pull the RIAA's teeth

Jesse's Business Model

[telstar]

1) Get sued for $12k
2) People donate money
3) Get sued again for $90b
4) People donate hella money
.
.
5) Profit?

Oooh scary.

[paroneayea]

A very well-known top lawyer at the RIAA, while making threats of further legal actions, referred to himself as a 'dentist' that I would not want to 'have another visit with'
So wait a minute... dentists are supposed to be the ones working for you. So, it seems to me that he's saying he's not the kind of guy you'd want to hire twice. Nevertheless, his comment sounds a lot like this:
Booga booga booga!

A Dentist?

[agentZ]

A dentist? Like in Cryptonomicon? Uh oh...

Re:The search engine is NOT back up

[RickHunter]

The search engine that's up right now looks to be him thumbing his nose at the RIAA. Try doing a search for "Metallica" or "Linkin" (or other popular band names) and take a look at the results. Searching for "linux" also produces amusing output.

I approve. Very nice way to show that he's not intimidated by their legal protection racket.

What an idiot

[anthony_dipierro]

It is time to call the RIAA to task on their clear hypocrisy on many issues. I am legally allowed to run my search engine - it is not forbidden by my dismissal.

Ha! Looks like you fools who donated could have saved yourself the trouble and made your donations straight to the RIAA.

RIAA wants search engine down?

[jakub_sad]

The RIAA has nothing to worry about, Slashdot has taken care of it FREE OF CHARGE!

Looks like Orrin Hatch blew up his box.

[Mordant]

'Fatal error: Call to undefined function: message_die() in /opt/chewplastic/htdocs/db/db.php on line 88'

Re:Oooh scary.

[Associate]

Better yet. Why doesn't the ADA sue the lawyer for implying there is something wrong with being a dentist?

Re:Jordan hasn't decided fate of search engine

[ProfMoriarty]

You're right ... Jordan hasn't decided ...

We have ...

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: message_die() in /opt/chewplastic/htdocs/db/db.php on line 88

Dentist? More like Proctologist!

[JonTurner]

Because nobody knows as many assholes as an attorney for the RIAA.

Re:Mafia

[Tibor the Hun]

you mean MAFIAA

Re:legally walking away

[Anonymous Coward]

"My fundamental view is that people should not be able to walk away from a deal they've made.", Hillary Rosen.

I don't think that what she is referring to is breaking a contract. Rather, the artist should be screwed so hard by their contracts that they can't walk. Ouch!

Re:Mirror

[PetWolverine]

It appears he got a slight discount. The settlement is to be paid in four installments, the first one $5000, the other three $2333.33 each.

Now, for only $11999.99, paid in four easy installments, you can run a search engine defying the RIAA!!

Great job guys

[dankinit]

Cost of tuition for one semester: $2,000
Fees and settlement from lawsuit: $15,000
Having to deal with a /. attack on top of everything else: Priceless

Re:The search engine is NOT back up

[PetWolverine]

I liked this part:

Max allowed load:
11

Current load:
124.

Yeah, that's /. at work.

Re:Yeah!

[hype7]

Maybe the RIAA would back off a bit if most of their legal attack squad and mayhaps their fearless leader all had glorious meetings with a large bullets. ...which is exactly why organized crime families should run p2p networks.

I wouldn't want to have been the poor sod to have sold a P2P network to Tony Soprano when he realizes he can't make any more out of it than Napster did.

No sirree.

Or maybe worse, they'd start sending heavies round to all the downloaders houses to collect. That sure would stop the downloading

Re:Mirror

[Idarubicin]

The site is getting slashdotted...

Right. The RIAA doesn't intend to sue him again, or really attempt to rescind the settlement. They're just going to keep doing things that result in /. stories, and kill the kid with bandwidth costs.

How does it feel to be a puppet of the regime, everyone? ;)

Fair is fair

[AndroidCat]

...which is exactly why organized crime families should run p2p networks.

Great, organized crime on both sides of the fight, that would be interesting.

Re:Mafia

[redhog]

That would be "Movie, Art and Fiction - Intimidation Associations of America"

Re:RTFA and the previous one, and the....

[teorem]

about google: looking for "revenge english band new order mp3" (revenge is a english band produced by the english band "new order", but you all know that :-).
Anyway, google is proposing on the right of the result page:
Free MP3 Music Downloads
No monthly fees. Fast downloads.
All your favorite artists available
(link to kaz..)

I find this funny.

RIAA.org

[dema]

What's up with theRIAA website [riaa.org]? I went to the main site and it downloaded that has some jibberish and says "HTTP/1.0 302 Moved Temporarily ". Same sort of thing happened with other pages within. Strange.

Re:Great job guys

[Anonymous Coward]

Cost of tuition for one semester: $2,000

Actually... "The tuition for a normal undergraduate program (12 to 21 credit hours a semester) is $26,400 per academic year."
Source: http://www.rpi.edu/dept/catalog/tuition.html

I hadn't checked recently but, I see it is slightly higher than the $17k we all complained about when I went there last century...

Re:From Slashdot?

[minion]

Speak for yourself. No MPAA or RIAA member has gotten any of my money in twenty years, nor have I made unauthorized copies of anything of theirs

Sooo, you have large collection of disco records, and that made your life complete? =)

Re:The search engine is NOT back up

[Anonymous Coward]

I approve. Very nice way to show that he's not intimidated by their legal protection racket.


Except he was...

Re:No new CDs

[Anonymous Coward]

Man if you're in se tennessee you are in the middle of the best music scene in the world. Open up your ears.

Hip hop. Gah. Listen to some real music you might like it.

Re:RIAA.org

[Loosewire]

NewsCo *The RIAA tuesday cleaned up at the Loosewire Awards ceremony. A glitzy event held on skid row, they walked away with the Most hacked website award, the Most Hated Organisation award and hilary Rosen the ugliest woman award, in an interview after the show she said "I dont know what these awards are for but thanks anyway" to much laughter and applause.... *
- thats how it would be if i had a news channel :-)

Re:There's a whole lot of media I just do without.

[Tumbleweed]

> I don't even bother anymore. There's nothing on CD that I even WANT. I'm an old fart now, and don't much care for their content anymore.

Exactly.

"Everybody knows Rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact!"
- Homer Jay Simpson

Don't get yourself so worked up, grandpa. :)

Re:No new CDs

[T40 Dude]

The last CD I bought was the first CD that wouldn't work with my PC's drive. That was a couple of years ago. You bought the Celine Dion CD ???

Re:Mafia

[Zarquon]

There's an italian comedian Pat Cooper. One of his routines goes (by memory):

"Daddy, what does the N-double A-C-P stand for?"
"It's the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People."
"We're italian, what do we got?"
"We got the EMA-AIA-EFFA-IIA-AIA. The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association."
"Oh."

Re:The RIAA are legal terrorists

[Crashmarik]

Do you have something similar from a respectable paper ?

Re:At least some in the Mafia

[AndroidCat]

In the Mafia, if you break the code of silence, the worst they can do is kill you.

The RIAA can play That Achy-Breaky Heart over and over and over...

Re:...Teach him!

[Anonymous Coward]

we simply cannot rant against the RIAA unless we first confirm that they're doing anything wrong.

Sure we can, this is slashdot

Re:No new CDs

[canajin56]

Hehe
"These cars can't cost more than a few hundred dollars to make, yet you're asking for $20,000! That's an outrage! Tell you what, here is $500, I'll just take the red one now....what? Listen to me, if you want my money, GIVE ME THE CAR! On MY terms or I'll just take one for nothing! It's not grand theft auto, it's my birthright! Look, I'm not a bad person...I just don't think your prices are fair. I'm MORE than willing to pay for the car...but only $500. The ball is in YOUR c....Ummmm....hello officer....I was just.....*FEET ON PAVEMENT*"
-Trying the "I only do it because YOU charge too much" philosopy at your local Ford dealership.