p2pnet - rss feed: RIAA vs Kylee hits the mainstream
p2pnet.net news view:- The mainstream media are beginning to pick up on the Kylee Andersen travesty.
That’s Kylee the Kopyright Kriminal on the right. You can tell just from looking at her that she’s out to do ill to Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG.
Having accused her mother, Tanya, of being an illicit online music distributor, the Big 4 music cartel wanted their RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) lawyers to grill 10-year-old Kylee. Face-to-face.
Was the idea to try to get information from her so they could use it against her mother? Or are they going to claim Kylee herself is another of those “massive online distributors of copyrighted music” who are, according to the multi-billion-dollar Big 4, “devastating” the corporate music industry?
After all, Kylee was seven when the RIAA first zeroed in on her mother, who’s disabled and who gets by on a pension. And as every online criminal and thief knows, seven is the perfect age to start as an illegal music distributor.
Judge Donald Ashmanskas partially spiked the RIAA’s guns, ruling it can speak with Kylee, but at her home, and by telephone only.
But even that’s a farce. The RIAA shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near Kylee, by phone or by any other means.
In USA Today’s Tech Space, “The RIAA is now attempting to depose 10-year-olds,” notes Angela Gunn, going on:
Seriously, the music industry wants to put a ten-year-old girl under oath to be grilled by lawyers. Most of us would be creeped out at the thought of our favorite ten-year-olds spending grownup-type time with their favorite music stars, much less with those stars’ lawyers - are we comfortable as a society with the thought of some piece of juris doctor interrogating little girls? Isn’t that, like, a Dateline NBC special in the making?
The Kylee case is bad, but it’s nothing new. Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG have been using their RIAA-like units trampling on the rights of their own customers in North America and abroad for years. And we let them get away with it, somehow forgetting we don’t depend on them, they depend on us.
“This has been going on now for two and a half years and has turned my life upside down,” Tanya Andersen told me recently. “It continues to be a huge source of stress and chaos in my life. I certainly don’t feel like a free human being at this point because it just continues to go on and on–it doesn’t seem to matter what proof I give them or what questions I’ve answered for them.”
It’s almost the end of March, designated Boycott the RIAA month. So how about extending that into April? And then May? And then …..
There’s a ton of excellent and affordable non-corporate music online.
You don’t need the Big 4 for that.
JN
Also See:
Kylee Andersen travesty - RIAA vs Kylee Andersen, 10, March 27, 2007
partially spiked - RIAA loses in Kylee case, March 27, 2007
Tech Space - They’re coming for your kids, March 27, 2007
Boycott the RIAA month - It’s March. So Boycott the RIAA!, March 27, 2007
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March 28th, 2007 at 10:05 am
Jon sent me a private email about this article saying, “Wait ’til the cartels make it into Canada”.
I want to remind Canadians why it is that the cartels are not suing people in Canada.
a) Unlike the USA, Canada has privacy legislation (PIPEDA) that disallows the ISPs from disclosing the names of their customers without a court order. In order to get a court order some minimum level of evidence (and I mean minimum) needs to be brought in front of a judge. The cartels have been unwilling to collect any evidence, and thus they have not been able to get over this minuscule hurdle.
b) The cartels are far more interested in encouraging the Canadian government to pass draconian laws than to win in the courts. They know that if they provide evidence of infringing activity that not only will they get past PIPEDA but they would also win their copyright case. Their lobbying of the Canadian government to pass draconian laws is largely based on the myth that current Canadian law doesn’t provide them the tools to sue, and successfully suing would destroy that myth.
The same major labels that make up the RIAA in the USA make up the CRIA in Canada and the IFPI internationally. The cartels are already here, but because of the legal and political climate here they have a different strategy than in the USA.
Canadians should do their part to ensure that politicians understand this, so that the cartels won’t win. As important as it is for Americans to not settle out of court with the cartels, it is important for Canadians to engage with candidates during elections and elected representatives between elections.
Please sign the petitions and send the sample letters at http://digital-copyright.ca
March 28th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
OMG RUN she’s gonna murder our children!
March 29th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Don’t you understand, her and other ‘bad seeds’ like her are KILLING THE MUSIC!!!!
March 29th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
She’s destroying the music industry as we know it.
July 2nd, 2007 at 5:07 pm
[…] 4 have attacked an estimated 30,000 American men women and children as young as Andersen’s 10-year-old daughter, Kylee, and who knows how many other people in other countries. This doesn’t even make a dent […]