[ga] Comparing the RIAA To "The Sopranos"

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

All,

  The RIAA yet again in the news and again their tactics are in
question and more and more those tactics seem to be deepening
the controversy.  So yet again, seems that the IPC would be better
served as would ICANN if they, either the IPC or ICANN itself
were to take some action regarding the RIAA.

According to commentator Therese Polletti at Dow Jones MarketWatch,
'the RIAA's tactics are
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/does-riaa-engage-mob-tactics/story.aspx?guid=%7B66666B25-1C23-4377-8C99-0BA530FD7577%7D&siteid=yhoof
nearly as bad as the actions of mobsters, real or fictional. The analogy
comes up easily and frequently in any discussion of the RIAA's
maneuvers.' Among other things she cites the extortionate nature of
their 'settlement negotiations' pointed out by Prof. Bob Talbot of 
the University of San Francisco School of Law IP Law Clinic. His 
student attorneys are
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/29/0120224&tid=123
helping private practitioners fight the RIAA, and the the illegality of
the RIAA's 
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/11/1427257&tid=123
use of unlicensed investigators. She goes on to cite the fact that the
RIAA thinks nothing of jeopardizing a student's college education in 
order to make their point, as support for the MAFIAA/Mafia analogy.

Regards,

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