RIAA Short on Funds? Fails to Pay Attorney Fees 341
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Can it be that the RIAA, or the "Big 4" record companies it represents, are short on funds? It turns out that despite the Judge's order, entered a month ago, telling them to pay Debbie Foster $68,685.23 in attorneys fees, in Capitol v. Foster, they have failed to make payment. Ms. Foster has now had to ask the Court to enter Judgment, so that she can commence 'post judgment collection proceedings'. According to Ms. Foster's motion papers (pdf), her attorneys received no response to their email inquiry about payment. Perhaps the RIAA should ask their lawyers for a loan?"
Re:Dragging their feet (Score:5, Funny)
Other than having assets seized by the Sheriff and auctioned off to settle the debt? No, none.
Re:Show Me the Money (Score:5, Funny)
It is being eaten up by all the money they are losing because people are downloading their songs instead of buying them.
Re:Dragging their feet (Score:5, Funny)
They paid off the Sheriff. (But they did not pay off the Deputy.)
Re:Ay, There's the rub.... (Score:2, Funny)
Surely in a music related thread it would "Theremin lies the rub"
Re:E-mail? (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, and I'm loaded now since my cell-phone provider and landlord seems to have forgotten to send me the bills these past few months.
Re:Dragging their feet (Score:2, Funny)
Whoa, watch it there... you might just become the RIAA's newest source of income if you get too close to the original.
Re:Get some perspective (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dragging their feet (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe the RIAA should release an album (Score:3, Funny)
Charity (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Maybe the RIAA should release an album (Score:3, Funny)
Seize Their Building (Score:3, Funny)
It's the RIAA's stubborn refusal to pay a single cent in exoneration that puts them at the top of the list of most evil organizations ever!
Re:E-mail? Hotmail. (Score:3, Funny)
You obviously don't use Hotmail.
Re:Charity-YES (Score:4, Funny)
Send them directly to me. Make them out to CASH, which is much easier to write than my entire name otherwise. I promise to be as honest in passing along the proceeds to the RIAA as they are in all of their other business dealings.
Re:RIAA attorney's statement before the bench (Score:5, Funny)
Re:RIAA attorney's statement before the bench (Score:4, Funny)
So...their gulfstream jets are transformers?
Re:not if they're using email... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Show Me the Money (Score:1, Funny)
hmm (Score:3, Funny)
Excuse me Mr. RIAA, I'm a building safety hobbyist. Just out of curiosity, how fireproof is your building?
Re:not if they're using email... (Score:5, Funny)
Give me money right now
Give me money right now
Give me money
Effing cheapskates
Give me money right now.
Re:Show Me the Money (Score:1, Funny)
Please seize Celine Dion....
Please seize Celine Dion....
Please seize Celine Dion....
Please seize Celine Dion....
Re:And How Much Does That Cost? (Score:2, Funny)
I thought when he said bullet point maybe he meant they would whip out some powerpoint presentation. Hey, it makes about as much sense.
Re:not if they're using email... (Score:1, Funny)
Your use of Happy Birthday is a violation of copyright law [snopes.com]. Our lawyers are en-route.
Signed,
The RIAA
Re:Par for the course (Score:3, Funny)
There is nothing these people could do that would surprise me, as they have shown themselves to be (a) totally irrational (i.e. outside the bounds of behavior that would tend to serve their best interests and survival) and (b) totally indecent (i.e. unrestrained by the sense of conscience that is instilled in most people who are born of a human mother).
So if I can only write about what surprises me, I will be silent.
As you may have discerned, silence is not my strong suit.
Re:Show Me the Money (Score:4, Funny)
Re:That is the problems with our INCs. (Score:1, Funny)
oh god, oh god, we are all going to laugh
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