{"id":2543,"date":"2006-02-28T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2006\/02\/28\/only-99-cents\/"},"modified":"2006-02-28T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T10:40:00","slug":"only-99-cents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2543","title":{"rendered":"only-99-cents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another example of David vs. Goliath in the music industry but with a twist.  The RIAA sued and a music label in <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/p2pnet.net\/story\/8054%22\">Canada decided to pay the legal bills<\/a> to help defend the Gruebals.  What I love are the arguments made in the defendants motion to dismiss:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p># The RIAA&#8217;s attempt to recover $750 per song, while its actual damages are only 99 cents per song, is unconstitutional;<br \/>\n# Since 2003 the RIAA has been actively engaged in &quot;extortive and predatory litigation tactics&quot; and misused the Courts to &quot;create a veil of fear designed to frighten average consumers into paying thousands of dollars in settlements to avoid prolonged litigation&quot;;<br \/>\n# The RIAA&#8217;s pleadings are &quot;smoke and mirrors&quot;;<br \/>\n# The complaint lacks sufficient specificity;<br \/>\n# Tthe &quot;distribution right&quot; upon which the RIAA vaguely relies does not apply to electronic transmissions; and<br \/>\n# Even if it did, the mere act of making sound recordings available online does not constitute an actionable infringement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to see that people are actually fighting the lawsuits and not settling.  And the fact that a Canadian label is backing the defendants ( think Sarah McLachlan, Delerium) is pretty impressive and sends out a pretty loud statement.  Sooner or later the RIAA will have no support.<br \/>\nVia <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/digg.com\/technology\/RIAA_victim_makes_motion_to_dismiss%22\">Digg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another example of David vs. Goliath in the music industry but with a twist. The RIAA sued and a music label in Canada decided to pay the legal bills to help defend the Gruebals. What I love are the arguments made in the defendants motion to dismiss: # The RIAA&#8217;s attempt to recover $750 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}