RIAA Not Done With Jesse Jordan 488
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'"
It is time for a major BOYCOTT (Score:4, Insightful)
thr0d ps1t (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:No new CDs (Score:2, Insightful)
I love America (Score:3, Insightful)
Search engine might be "back online," but... (Score:3, Insightful)
Oh, how useful.
hmmm.... (Score:5, Insightful)
It also states that the "defendant shall not engage in or sell" software that encourages copying, trading, blah, blah, blah.
How are you keeping your Phynd service up again(or are you just offering it for download)? Is it your contention that your software is intended to do nothing of the sort (ie. just a tool to be used for good OR evil)? That's the only loophole I can see in that document... anyone better with legalese than myself find something different?
I'm a little confused here.
Double Jeopardy (Score:5, Insightful)
From Slashdot? (Score:5, Insightful)
Well, the MPAA is horrible and is taking away rights! But hell, here comes X-2, The Hulk, Lord of the Rings, etc.
The Slashdot crowd is all about boycotts, except when it makes life inconvenient for them. Then they'll pony up to the bar faster than... something that ponies up to the bar really quick.
RIAA behaving like criminals (Score:5, Insightful)
RIAA makes example of him... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:...Teach him! (Score:3, Insightful)
Now, I am not sure - glancing at the interviews and the dismissal agreement - whether or not he's violated it or not. Frankly, thats for someone with a more precise legal background to handle than me. But thats the key issue: we simply cannot rant against the RIAA unless we first confirm that they're doing anything wrong.
Community insurance ?! (Score:2, Insightful)
Good for him, nice of the donators !
But I don't think we ("the community") will be able to support a lot of people in its situation.
Does it mean that we (all of us) should find in our usual insurance contracts if they cover our responsibility wrt to our programming activities ?
Re:No new CDs (Score:3, Insightful)
If there are any. I'm not sure, it seems like most recording companies are getting buyer-hostile these days.
Re:Yeah! (Score:4, Insightful)
Mafia (Score:5, Insightful)
Oh, and strategically placed "campaign contributions".
If that bit about "visiting the dentist" is accurate, I hope he gets his teeth knocked out in some unfortunate freak accident with a ballpeen hammer.
Re:No new CDs (Score:5, Insightful)
The European companies are just as bad. Indies might be ok, but most of them are pretty deep in bed with the biggies just to survive too. I only buy from bands directly. There are actually some really good musicians out there selling CDs pressed on their own computer. Go to gigs. If you like em, buy their CD.
Re:Dentist... how appropriate (Score:5, Insightful)
??AA Needs nose thumped (Score:4, Insightful)
Sounds like another SLAPP suit on the way.
To those that are still buying RIAA music or MPAA movies, how does it feel to be part of the problem, jerk?
To those that are not buying RIAA music or MPAA movies, feels good being a small part of the solution, doesn't it?
Re:thr0d ps1t (Score:4, Insightful)
One of the big problems with our legal system is that it is easy to bully someone with a frivolous lawsuit when they can't afford the time or money to defend themselves.
Exactly, some countries have 'justice system', USA has 'legal system' ...
Re:From Slashdot? (Score:2, Insightful)
Just like nearly everyone. You don't think all those rednecks pouring wine in the gutter actually drank French Wine, do you? Know how many anti-smoking people I know who eat Oreos? How many anti-SUV people would actually refuse a ride in one when a friend pulled up in the pouring rain?
Re:hmmm.... (Score:5, Insightful)
He is prohibited from trading/transmitting Plaintiff's copyrighted works.
The defendant shall not engage in or sell software that encourages copying of Plaintiff's copyrighted works.
He is obligated to implement measures which attempt to prevent the illegal copying of RIAA's (well their member company's) copyrighted materials. And if RIAA ever implements a system to prevent finding of this copyrighted material, he must implement it in his phynd service.
Re:From Slashdot? (Score:3, Insightful)
99% of the population has NO idea what the RIAA/MPAA is until they get busted for downloading Spiderman Divx.
"The artists" (Score:5, Insightful)
The idea that "the artist" - which is really a misnomer, since the term should be "whoever happens to own the rights to a work" - has some God-given right to perpetual profit from and control of their work - is untenenble. I certainly don't: I do my work for hire, and if I want more money, I have to do more work. But the Bonos and the RIAA and MPAA seem to think that an "artist's" granddaughter not having to work for a living is more important than an open society and a free discourse about the cultural works in it.
Re:Mafia (Score:3, Insightful)
Finally, an acronym to replace all the various **IA, (MP|RI)AA, etc. etc. Nice one, Tibor!
I just hope the real Family doesn't take offense. Historically, they've had much more business sense than the entertainment cartels.
--K.
Danegeld (Score:1, Insightful)
It makes no sense to give anything to these litigational terrorists. Not money, not in taking down a web site, and definitely not in buying their CDs.
Re:I love America (Score:2, Insightful)
The EFF is a CHARITY whereas the RIAA is an INDUSTRY ORGANIZATION. They have very different abilities as such. Furthermore, the power of these two organizations is not proportional to the interests of people in this country. The RIAA fundamentally is a representative of the interests of the record industry, whereas the EFF is really more about representing the rights of the consumer.
Re:No new CDs (Score:2, Insightful)
This is proof of how sleazy the RIAA is.. (Score:5, Insightful)
This quote from his webpage says it all... The RIAA obeys the laws when it benefits them...and flouts them when it benefits THEM!. It's only too bad that they have such deep pockets with which to bribe Congress. Their arrogance will prove to be their undoing in the long run though. Only freaks like Orrin Hatch will be left once that happens..and frankly I think Hatch is so far out on the lunatic fringe that he's more a liability then an asset for them these days
Re:Search engine might be "back online," but... (Score:2, Insightful)
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept. 11, 1773.