Music Festival Producer Pre-Sues Bootleggers 422
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from the nipped-in-the-bud dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Apparently, if you even have been *thinking* about bootlegging the Mile High Music Festival this coming weekend in Denver you've already been sued. No joke. Event producer AEG has already filed trademark infringement claims against 100 John Does and 100 Jane Does in anticipation that they're going to bootleg the event. Since none of the sued parties have actually done anything yet, no one's showing up in court to protest the lawsuit either, so it moves forward... meaning that AEG can use it to get all sorts of law enforcement officials (US Marshals, local and state police and even off-duty officers) to go seize bootleg material."
thoughtcrime (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You've got to be shitting me. (Score:5, Funny)
There are more likely situations... e.g. suing Facebook or Google for privacy violations... or Toyota for automotive failure... oil companies for spills...
What a great idea! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:hah (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but the last reasonable judge retired some time in the 1400s.
How many Jane and John Doe's are there? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:You've got to be shitting me. (Score:5, Funny)
The heck with slander. I'm gonna proactively sue him for raping my goat. And I don't even HAVE a goat.
Yet.
Re:You've got to be shitting me. (Score:5, Funny)
Everything I thought I knew about civil law...
You "thought" you knew? So you're admitting to having acquired knowledge which could have been taught at law school, yet you did not pay any law-school tuition? Thought-crime alert -- somebody sue this guy!
Re:You've got to be shitting me. (Score:3, Funny)
I'm suing you for slandering me! You haven't done it yet, but YOU MIGHT.
If I slander you in the future it will be for good reason. I am countersuing you for the libelous press release that you might issue if you lose.
Re:pre-crime (Score:4, Funny)
No he'll try to convert you to scientology, jump up and down on your couch, then try to kill you.
Re:The difference between recording and bootleggin (Score:2, Funny)
Re:pre-crime (Score:5, Funny)
No he'll try to convert you to scientology, jump up and down on your couch, then try to kill you.
I'd rather have Arnold travel back in time from when the crime was committed and kill me now for my future transgression, it's much less scary.
Re:What a great idea! (Score:3, Funny)
And conveniently, just like the labels, you can collect immediately after the crime occurs.
Now what was your address again?
Re:Pre-emptive lawsuits (Score:3, Funny)
Or say you're the 201st and they're looking for 200 other people.
Re:The difference between recording and bootleggin (Score:2, Funny)
Hence depriving them of the royalties collected from selling those stupid little plastic bottles of beer.
Re:You've got to be shitting me. (Score:3, Funny)
If your name actually IS Jane Doe, can you counter sue?
Re:You've got to be shitting me. (Score:3, Funny)
With the right jury, you will be able to retire on those damages! (Assuming your municipality doesn't declare bankruptcy on you.)
Re:You've got to be shitting me. (Score:4, Funny)
What if the goat consented? What if it was the goats fault for making pretty eyes at him?
They're is always two sides to these stories you know....
And What if..... (Score:3, Funny)
Joe Sixpack does the bootlegging not, John Doe and Jane doe, is he allowed?
Re:Not really standard fare (Score:3, Funny)
If no one actually bootlegs the event, who pays the monetary damages and attorney fees?
If no-one actually bootlegs the event, there will be no monetary damages and the billions of dollars the record industry will make from selling nothing but legitimate recordings will more than compensate them for attorney fees. In fact, they should have enough left over to buy Belgium and make "Baby One More Time" the new national anthem.