It seems the liars on their last legs with some Judges now actively hinting at penalties for bringing false cases to discover bill payers names.
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14814A judge has accused Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA of using “gamesmanship” tactics in joinder cases where defendants are linked together.
These kinds of cases allow the corporate enforcer to efficiently terrorise a number of people simultaneously, in effect.
It also means they’re spared the time and expense of going after their victims one by one and, “it is difficult to ignore the kind of gamesmanship that is going on here” writes magistrate judge Margaret J. Kravchuk.
These plaintiffs have devised a clever scheme to obtain court-authorized discovery prior to the service of complaints, but it troubles me that they do so with impunity and at the expense of the requirements of Rule 11(b)(3) because they have no good faith evidentiary basis to believe the cases should be joined
Says Beckerman:
“Rule 11 sanctions can be imposed not only on the record companies but on their lawyers as well. For a lawyer to have on his record that Rule 11 sanctions have been imposed against him, can be a really serious matter. [RIAA legal reps] Holme Roberts & Owen will not be pleased that the lawyers handling the RIAA cases allowed that to happen.
When will these ppl stop their tactics of misleading and deceiving the courts with ludicrously flawed cases, only when they are penalised for doing so is the answer, lets hope more Judges step up to deliver a death blow to this anti judicial process that the Cartel employ to use as leverage in their extortion attempts.
