New RIAA charge: illegal Twittering
“In July, a federal jury ordered Mr. Tenenbaum to pay $675,000 to record labels for downloading and distributing 30 songs by several artists, including Nirvana, Eminem, and the Beastie Boys,” says Wired Campus. “Now, it says Mr. Tenenbaum is encouraging others to illegally download music as well. On Tuesday, it filed for injunctive relief in a federal court in Massachusetts.”
The story goes on, “In August, a person upset about the court’s decision posted the list of the songs named in the case on The Pirate Bay, a Swedish file-sharing Web site, encouraging others to download them in protest.”
It’s referring to a post by The Saint, who, in two Reader’s Writes, also told p2pnet about the Joel Tenenbaum $675,000 Playlist.
“All the 30 songs already available via torrent,” he said. “http://itoodownloadedthem.blogspot.com.”
With the list went the pic on the right, and on his site, “We can’t change the world by one campaign, but we can make it clear,” says The Saint.
From now on, “whenever anybody on this planet get sued for downloading and sharing any kind of art, we too will download and share it too. We will make it clear: by suing individuals for downloading stuff, they will just share it with everybody.”
Joel’s legal team, “noticed people downloading the track list and posted a note on Twitter in mid-August: ‘interesting: a ‘joel’ torrent list of the 30 songs is now on thepiratebay/other torrent sites and is being DL widely in protest’,” says Wired Campus.
Now, Cara Duckworth (right), the RIAA’s vice president for communications, said in an interview on Thursday the message is “a clear example of him thumbing his nose at the verdict and not taking us seriously,”it says.
She admitted Joel probably wasn’t behind the posting on Pirate Bay, “but argued that he should not encourage others to look at the Web site”.
In an interview with The Boston Globe, Joel said he’d had nothing to do with track list, or the tweet from his legal team.
“It’s something that Pirate Bay just did on its own,” he told the Globe. “I don’t know who got the idea to put it up there. But we thought it was funny.” - p2pnet
- EthiopianReview.com
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