[ga] RIAA Backs Down In Austin, Texas

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

All,

  Thanks to Ray's diligance and sense of forthrightness I can
and do add this bit of appropriate comentary:

  We don't need no RIAA down here in Texas!  Get out of town
and don't and uh, don't let the Texas sun ever sit on your 
backsides ever again!  Take your trash elsewhere! >:(  I
here Calif puts up with this sort of legal harrasment 
nonsense...  Besides they LOVE drama...

  And Ray, not bad at all for a New York boy!  >:)  BTW, my
mother is originally from Brookland NY.  Keep up the good work
Ray!  >:)

See:
 http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/ NewYorkCountryLawyer
writes "In November, 2004, several judges in the federal court in
Austin, Texas, got together and
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html#4026930231011391842
ordered the RIAA to cease and desist from its practice of joining
multiple 'John Does' in a single case. The RIAA blithely ignored the 
order, and continued the illegal practice for the next four years, but 
steering clear of Austin.  In 2008, however, circumstances conspired to 
force the record companies back to that venue. In
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/01/index-of-litigation-documents.html#Arista_v_Does1-22
Arista v. Does 1-22, in Providence, Rhode Island, they were hoping to
get the student identities from Rhode Island College. After the first
round, however, they learned that the College was not the ISP; rather, 
the ISP was an Austin-based company, Apogee Telecom Inc., meaning the 
RIAA would have to serve its subpoena in Austin. The RIAA did just that, 
but Apogee unlike so many other ISP's did not turn over its subscribers' 
identities in response to the subpoena, instead filing objections. This 
meant the RIAA would have to go to court, to try to get the Court to 
overrule Apogee's objections.  Instead, it opted to
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html#7622662959473254223
withdraw the subpoena and drop its case."

Regards,

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