[ga] Class Action Complaint Against RIAA Now Online

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  The following is yet another chapter in the RIAA/IPC saga
outlining the RIAA errant behavior story of P2P in what has
turned out to be a landmark case of Andersen v. Atlantic
in Oregon and points up why such organizations have no
reasonable business being a legitimate represented group
of groups i.e. the IPC of ICANN.  It seems clear that
the RIAA represents a clear and present danger to the
stability of the internet and that their egregious, likely less
than legal and continuos behavior threatens legitimate interaction
between individuals using the Internet via P2P protocol.  As such
I believe, as do all of our members, several university law schools,
independent NGO's whom have already expressed their many
and varried legitimate concerns, regarding the errant behavior of
the RIAA and the MPAA as well as their European counterparts,
that the DOC needs to take specific and draconian action to protect
the public at large and Internet stockholders as well as users from
these organizations with all due haste.

Recommended reading for all interested in the RIAA's litigation war
against p2p file sharing is the amended class action complaint
http://www.vanfeliu.com/attorneyProfile-Beckerman
just filed in Oregon in
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2008/03/amended-complaint-filed-in-andersen-v.html
Andersen v. Atlantic. This landmark
http://www.ilrweb.com/viewILRPDF.asp?filename=andersen_atlantic_080314SecondAmendedComplaint
109-page document (pdf) tells both the general story of the
RIAA's campaign against ordinary folks, and the specific story of its
harassment of Tanya Andersen, and even of her young daughter. The
complaint includes federal and state RICO claims, as well as other 
legal theories, and alleges that "The world's four major recording 
studios had devised an illegal enterprise intent on maintaining their 
virtually complete monopoly over the distribution of recorded music." 
The point has been made by one commentator that
http://p2pnet.net/story/15280  
the RIAA won't be able to weasel its out of this one by simply
withdrawing
it; this one, they will have to answer for. If the relief requested in
the
complaint is granted, the RIAA's entire campaign will be shut down for
good.

Regards,

Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 277k members/stakeholders strong!)
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