RIAA Sues Homeless Man 245
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In a Manhattan case, Warner v. Berry, the RIAA sued a man who lives in a homeless shelter, leaving a copy of the summons and complaint not at the homeless shelter, but at an apartment the man had occupied in better times, and had long since vacated. The RIAA's lawyers were threatened with sanctions by the Magistrate Judge in the case, for making misleading representations to the Court which the Magistrate felt were intentional. The District Judge, however, disagreed with imposing sanctions, giving the RIAA's lawyers 'as officers of the Court the benefit of the doubt,' and instead concluded — in his 6-page opinion (PDF) — that the RIAA's lawyers were just being 'sloppy' and had not made the misstatements for an improper purpose.'"
In related news... (Score:5, Funny)
Default dismissal by precedence? (Score:5, Funny)
(cue judge, asked for a warrant)
A search? Why? The RIAA thinks someone's downloading their stuff? The organisation that randomly sues people, from grannies to bums? Get outta my courtroom before I have you thrown out the window!
Are you kidding (Score:4, Funny)
The damn homeless, always thinking about themselves! This guy clearly can afford to buy this music, as opposed to pirating it. We need to criminalize his actions, so we can keep his kind off of the street!
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I mean seriously, this has to be an article from The Onion. I can't believe that TFA is news about what is happening in the real world. I just can't. Someone tell me that it's just a bad joke, two weeks late of "April fools".
New case in the works... (Score:5, Funny)
This just goes to show you... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:And again... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Default dismissal by precedence? (Score:5, Funny)
Buying CDs is sponsoring terrorism!
Re:Are you kidding (Score:5, Funny)
You know the lawyers at RIAA are insane... (Score:5, Funny)
Congratulations! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:New case in the works... (Score:5, Funny)
Do you mean for stealing the name, or for being boring and unworthy of attention?
Re:New case in the works... (Score:1, Funny)
God... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I'm amazed (Score:5, Funny)
What are these RIAA lawyers thinking? WTF!
Re:Default dismissal by precedence? (Score:3, Funny)
Hollywood is full of pinko commie bastards who hate America and send their revenue from "Why America is to Blame 4: Rise of the Anti-Christ" to terrorist training camps.
Terrorists, meanwhile, sell boot-leg copies, download and distribute copies, and otherwise use illegal means to make money off the Hollywood movies and music to fund terrorist training camps.
It's INGENIUS! All you need is for Hollywood to pretend to be stopping the pirates, and it would seem that they are in fact fighting terrorism!
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Re:The RIAA gets dumber by the day... (Score:3, Funny)
Or really sloppy (Score:5, Funny)
Or a really, really sloppy lawyer.
Re:I'm amazed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The RIAA gets dumber by the day... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Translation (Score:3, Funny)