RIAA Lied To Congress About New Filesharing Suits

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "On December 23, 2008, the RIAA's Mitch Bainwol sent a letter to the Judiciary and Commerce Committees of both the House and Senate, falsely representing to them that the RIAA 'discontinued initiating new lawsuits in August.' A copy of the letter is online (PDF). In fact, as many of you already know, the RIAA brought hundreds of new lawsuits since August. See, e.g., these 40 or so cases which just represent some of the cases brought in December." Maybe they're just taking a broad view of the world "initiate."

Hmm

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm riddled with surprise.

RIAA Lied

[Anonymous Coward]

In other news grass is green, bears defecate in the woods. More at 11.

Re:Is lying to Congress illegal?

[auric_dude]

No, just par for the course.

Re:And this is news???

[Anonymous Coward]

But without windows, how would we know if the sky was blue?

Re:And this is news???

[FilterMapReduce]

But without windows, how would we know if the sky was blue?

Indeed, the only time I ever see the sky is when I'm using Windows XP [wallpapercity.org].

Steal this song

[jessica_alba]

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

Re:Is lying to Congress illegal?

[liegeofmelkor]

You're thinking of lying BY Congressmen... that's business as usual.

Re:Steal this song

[liegeofmelkor]

Talk like that just gets you shot!

Slashbots will post whatever populisms they want.

[Rogerborg]

Slashbots will post whatever populisms they want.

Re:RIAA Lied

[Anonymous Coward]

and pigs are still in the aeronautical r&d stage

Re:Is lying to Congress illegal?

[noundi]

Is lying to Congress illegal? Is it considered perjury?

No but in RIAA's defence I think it's mandatory.

Re:Promissory estoppel?

[YourExperiment]

IANAL.... but my gf is =)

Yeah, my gf loves that too. Oh wait, sorry...

Re:Is lying to Congress illegal?

[dkleinsc]

Is lying to Congress illegal? Is it considered perjury?

I do not recall.

Re:I say we take up arms...

[Anonymous Coward]

Windfall tax, 100%. Take the lawyers for every cent of their fees, and the RIAA for every cent of the settlements. And then throw them into Boston Harbour.

Lite Brite images cause panics in Boston and you want to fill the harbour with sharks?

Re:RIAA Lied

[jank1887]

a little rocket propellant, and anything can fly. :)

Re:Is lying to Congress illegal?

[CelticWhisper]

Come on now. Everyone knows the cake is a lie.

Re:Is lying to Congress illegal?

[sxeraverx]

I do NOT recall having sex with that woman.

Re:And this is news???

[NadNad]

But without windows, how would we know if the sky was blue?

Indeed, the only time I ever see the sky is when I'm using Windows XP [wallpapercity.org].

The only time I see blue is when I use Winders also, but it's unrelated to my desktop-pattern...