p2pnet - rss feed: Santangelo fund: 69 cents needed!
p2p news / p2pnet: As I write this, we’re 69 cents away from hitting the $5,500 mark in the Patti Santangelo Fight Goliath campaign.
Five-and-a-half K is very decent amount, but it’s only the beginning.
Patti is the New York mother who’s taking on Organized Music with no legal or financial resources.
She’ll be able to deal with the first only if she can acquire the second, which is what the Patti fund is all about.
You can help by making a donation - doesn’t matter how much - through the button below, and/or by adding one to your web site. Get the code here.
If you don’t use PayPal, send your contribution in via this snail-mail address:
Patricia Santangelo
C/O P.O. Box 274
Hartsdale New York
10530-0274
Below is a selection of links to p2pnet stories on the Santangelo story and under that are sites which now carry Fight Goliath buttons.
Spread the word. Blog, post, use IM, emails, ICR, whatever. Contact your local tv / radio station / newspaper.
Let Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Warner music know that they depend on you and not the other way around.
Mother of 5 takes on Big Music - p2pnet Q&A with lawyer Ray Beckerman, August 28, 2005
RIAA victim talks to p2pnet - p2pnet Q&A with Patti Santangelo, September 4, 2005
The ‘We’re Not Taking Any More’ club - Patti isn’t the only who’s who’s had enough, September 17, 2005
Wanted: p2p tech experts - Santangelo’s lawyers aren’t impressed by RIAA ‘evidence,’ October 24, 2005
RIAA mass lawsuits ‘improper’ - Beckerman believes the RIAA oversteps the mark with mass subpoenas, November 21, 2005
1st RIAA trial: victim to defend herself - First news that Santangelo is on her own, December 6, 2005
Teens next RIAA victims - Just before Christmas, the Big Four decide Patti’s children might also make targets, December 23, 2005
Santangelo picks up steam - Forced to acknowledge the saga, the mainstream media finally pick it up, December 28, 2005
Tech expert hacks at RIAA evidence - Zi Mei sets out to debunk RIAA ‘technical’ evidence, December 29, 2005
Patti Santangelo fights Goliath: II - Patti says, ‘Thanks for the support,’ December 17, 2005
Patti Santangelo campaign launch! - It’s the last day of 2005 and the Fight Goliath campaign officially goes up, December 31, 2005
Sceptical about Patti Santangelo? - p2pnet columnist Alex H has a few thoughts for doubters, January 8, 2006
Fight Goliath fund breaks $5,000 - A milestone is reached as surfer support starts for the $10,000 mark, January 16, 2006
Patti Santangelo Fight Goliath support sites.
- http://jasonrohrer.n3.net $1544.02
- http://p2pnet.net $1390.71
- http://boingboing.net $1149.48
- http://www.fightgoliath.org $523.00
- http://www.downhillbattle.org $310.12
- http://www.p2pforum.it $119.53
- http://www.p2pjihad.org/ $79.69
- http://virtualturntable.fourstones.net $72.22
- http://www.bl0g.co.uk/ $47.75
- http://www.azoz.com $42.79
- http://www.yourmercifulgod.co.uk/ $28.89
- http://boycott-riaa.com $23.37
- http://psg.com/ $19.12
- http://www.boycott-riaa.com $19.12
- http://www.tomb-of-nil.com $19.12
- http://www.pod2peer.blogspot.com/ $18.92
- http://blog.andrlik.org $14.26
- http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com $14.11
- http://psx00.com $10.08
- http://http://www.myspace.com/brizmo $9.41
- http://www.livejournal.com/users/obscure411 $9.41
- http://www.quiglag.com $9.41
- http://www.soundnet.co.uk/ $4.50
- http://www.pdmedia.org $2.61
- http://bandnet.org/ $2.55
- http://scattermall.com $0.67
- http://www.peteyp.com $0.19
Cheers! Thanks for your help. And all the best …
Jon
January 21st, 2006 at 7:31 pm
To pour money down a lawyer’s black hole….
January 21st, 2006 at 9:23 pm
Read this:
http://p2pnet.net/story/7537
Cheers!
January 21st, 2006 at 9:54 pm
Is the money going to Patricia or her lawyer or both?
January 22nd, 2006 at 1:00 am
like alex h said in that other piece:
“Patricia Santangelo still has legal expenses. Retaining a lawyer is not the extent of the total legal fees that can be racked up fighting a civil lawsuit. Need to file a document with the court? Pay up. Need to subpoena a RIAA “piracy investigator”? Pay up. Need a one-off conversation with an expert in a particular legal or technical field? Pay up. It’s not a “Lawyer costs $100/hour x 35 hours = $3,500 in legal fees” kind of situation.”
January 22nd, 2006 at 10:24 pm
I dont really understand this explanation. Doesnt she have lawyer fees from the beginning that are unpaid?
January 22nd, 2006 at 11:06 pm
i don’t know about previous lawyer bills, but i do know that it will cost her to keep fighting them even without a lawyer
January 23rd, 2006 at 11:05 am
$24000+ so far for a motion of dismissal, that should have cost around $1000…. Why so much money for work done up until this point? I do believe that Patti Santangelo is a good person, but I don’t trust Ray Beckerman. Perhaps Patti should use this money to get a settlement now?
So the question I have, is why the hell should people put money into a kitty that is going to enrich a lawyer? Mrs Santangelo is keeping Beckerman on retainer, but if he is such a good person why not do pro bono work? Especially when she is representing herself?
Perhaps it is all part of Beckerman’s strategy?
January 23rd, 2006 at 2:22 pm
My understanding is that, yes, all the donations are going directly to Ms. Santangelo (among other things, I verified that it really is her email address attached to the PayPal account.) She may need to spend more on legal help at some point, but that will be up to her.
Anyway, Rogers and Beckerman won’t get any part of the donation money; they seem to be out of the picture at this point — except maybe for some unofficial legal advice, and a convenient address for snail-mail donations to avoid spreading Santangelos’ home address around too much.
It’s been quite a few days now since the last fresh news on the case; I’m going to go and try to scare some up now, and put the results somewhere obvious — like maybe in “Elektra v. Santangelo” on Wikipedia…
January 24th, 2006 at 12:35 am
“Perhaps Patti should use this money to get a settlement now? ”
Subtle.
What are you using your industry shill paycheck for ?
January 24th, 2006 at 12:39 am
There isn’t a heck of a lot more to say at this point, but there’ll be a few developments within the next few days and I will, of course, post as and when, so stay tuned.
For now, this is going to be a long battle, one way or another. But it’s an historic one - the first time individuals of all ages and beliefs who’ve never met each other, and who probably never will, are doing what they can to help a victim of sheer, unadultrated corporate greed.
Cheers!
January 26th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
Just think, if Patti would have settled for 3 grand, she would have over 2 grand in donation money to blow. Now she’s at least 24 grand in the hole.
She could have taken a nice vacation with her kids to Disney Land or something. Why go through the headache?
January 27th, 2006 at 9:53 am
I agree that the money may have better been spent on something like the kidnapping and execution of Mitch Bainwol and Cary Sherman. It would probably put a stop to all the lawsuits. Ideally there would be some kind of beheading video like those seen in Iraq, which everybody would be able to download off of p2p networks.
January 29th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
if you question Ms. Santangelo’s integrity, motives, or intentions you can piss off. This gallant lady is fighting your fight, as well as her own, and it certainly has been no picnic. She has been under enough scrutiny since this whole rigmarole began and has withstood it better than most of the recent Supreme Court nominees. If you side with her persecutors, then by all means have a field day and join their most unholy war on their customer base.
Personally, I feel that the entertainment cartel has shown its colors as dishonest, corrupt, venal, and – well, go to your thesaurus, there’s a vast range of negative words that apply. They have attempted to suborn witnesses, they have attempted to wring large sums of money from a group hardly capable of meeting their larcenous demands, have made whores out of our Senators and Congressmen in order to achieve their nefarious goals, and they have broken more criminal law than any of the persons they have filed suit against.
Do not, however, make the mistake of believing you can spread their gospel of poor picked on losers of billions of dollars by making any posts at this web site. We have followed the case too closely to be bilked by the scum of the earth that calls itself the representatives of the entertainment industry.