Has RIAA Fired MediaSentry? 76
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "According to a tantalizing 'unconfirmed' report, it appears that the RIAA has jettisoned MediaSentry (now known as SafeNet) as its 'investigator.' MediaSentry has come under heat in a number of different states for the fact that it was 'investigating' without an investigator's license and invading people's privacy. Earlier this year it was found to have made diametrically conflicting written statements to two different tribunals within 30 days of each other, in one denying that it was an 'expert witness,' in another claiming that it was an 'expert witness.' If the report is accurate, the termination comes at an interesting time, since MediaSentry's investigator is the plaintiffs' only fact witness to prove copyright infringement in Capitol Records v. Thomas, which is now headed for a retrial on March 9th. If he does take the stand, the reasons for his company's termination will be fair game for cross examination. One also has to wonder if it's in any way connected to the puzzling enigma of the New York Attorney General's alleged involvement in the RIAA's recent Wall Street Journal announcement that it would be reducing its p2p file sharing cases to a trickle."
So... (Score:5, Funny)
MediaSentry should get fired like in Futurama... (Score:5, Funny)
...from a cannon, into the Sun!
The market works. Finally. (Score:5, Funny)
Eventually, companies must come to recognize their liabilities as liabilities, right?
Re:Yes (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The market works. Finally. (Score:5, Funny)
companies must come to recognize their liabilities as liabilities
not in soviet USA where $700billion checks don't bounce
In Other News... (Score:5, Funny)
Totally new company. Honest. New name to be announced real soon. New. Completely new. Totally different.
Would we lie to you?
Ad Banner Humor (Score:3, Funny)
Re:In Other News... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:MediaSentry should get fired like in Futurama.. (Score:4, Funny)
I'd like to put the little bastard in a sack, and toss the sack in a river, and hurl the river into space.
Re:MediaSentry should get fired like in Futurama.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:MediaSentry should get fired like in Futurama.. (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, be nice! I cannot see what kind of crime that river commited to suffer such a fate.
Its been pretty evident... (Score:3, Funny)
Its been pretty evident that they (RIAA litigation teams) have been soiling in their own yards for some time. Unfortunately this is going to have undesired consequences to many of us that were not foreseen. Such as the bit where in Texas, you cannot work on a PC for another person without a Private Investigators license. Last I heard, they're still fighting this one. I don't want to have to carry a 4 year degree in criminal justice just so I can fix PC's for clients at some ridiculous low price just to compete with the dumb geeks at Worst Buy. There are others unintended consequences as well.
Who's to say that the RIAA didn't decide in a corporate meeting recently that; "Hay team, it looks like we've gotten as much as we're going to get out of this cash cow. All that we've made thus far has been safely squirreled away in Swiss accounts now so I think it is about time we consider disbanding starting by dropping Media Sentry. We don't want to pay those buffoons any more of our money anyway."