p2pnet.net News Special:- The US administration is in rigid lock-step with the corporate entertainment cartels as they use American tax-payer funded resources to further vested, hard-core commercial interests.

The Big Four record labels – Vivendi Universal (France), EMI (Great Britain), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany) and Warner Music (US) - started it, but the movie industry is now close behind and, using the willing mainstream media as their principal print and electronic outlets, the two sectors have successfully escalated a simple commercial concept, copyright infringement, to the level of major crime, ranking it with murder and rape.

At the same time, Dick Cheney and George W. Bush are prosecuting an immensely unpopular war in an oil-rich country far away from their own borders, using charges of ‘terrorism’ as their excuse.

With both of the above in mind, someone who stood up for his country in Iraq was Tyler Payne, a soldier who on his return to the US became a target of a different kind when he found himself on the Big Four’s sue ‘em all hit list.

But he isn’t alone. Another man put his life on the line for America in another unpopular war and in return, his children are on notice that in 60 days they’ll be victimized by RIAA lawyers.

Considering that RIAA stands for Recording Industry Association of America but only one of its owners, Warner Music, is American, that’s particularly rich.

The man in question is Larry Scantlebury who flew for America in Vietnam.

Until his death, this June, Scantlebury was an Amazon reviewer. Here’s his profile.

I served in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot in the early seventies. I was barely a man, if that at all. While that historical event has become twisted in the telling with self serving political rhetoric and apocryhpal movies, it had an enormous impact on those of us who served and the mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers who waited for us.

The cost was extraordinary in lives and pain, along with lost opportunity, hope and love. Not surprisingly, it changed my life.

I imagine that’s what draws me to writers like DeMille, James Lee Burke, and Robert Crais. Their characters, Keith Landry, Dave Robicheaux and Joe Pike, successfully overcome a damaging adolescence and an indifferent public. But they still walk with a limp.

I like to write. I don’t think you can write unless you read so to that end, I may read 100 books a year. I normally find something worthwhile in each of them. Rarely, say one book in 50, I’ll give up on after 100 pages and write myself a note as to what was the impediment.

I have two novels completed, “Short Days, Long Nights” and “Ashes of our Fathers,” but so far I only have dozens of rejection letters to show for the effort. Well, that’s not entirely true. I can honestly say with pride while it would be nice I don’t write to be published.

I think you have to take it all in stride. I mean everything. Like Bill Wilson wrote years ago, it really is ‘one day at a time.’

I wrote this four years ago when I began writing reviews. Not much has changed. A few more grey hairs, a little thicker around the waist. I still have a lovely wife who puts up with my idiosyncratic behavior, and great sons. My oldest son, Colin, is a pilot with Southwest Airlines. I do have three gifted (of course) grandchildren, Sal, Bryant, and Vincent. You can see how the family divided along lines of heritage. My wife Deborah is an RN at a local hospital, looks great in scrubs and I am crazy about her.

I love music and am frequently torn between Ludwig Beethoven and Robert Plante. Someday I’ll make a decision. But not today.

Favorite fiction? Probably Clavell’s Shogun and Follet’s Pillars. Non-fiction? Anything by Kearns, Charles Van Doren’s Book of Knowledge, most of the prodigal Ambrose and Manchester. Oh yes. John Keegan. I find myself enjoying first time writers. William Landay and Michael Gruber come to mind.

30 days off? Hang out with Deborah on some island where there’s no e-mail. My father taught me how to read books and be discerning with what I put in my head. The best gift he ever gave me. I miss him.

Larry Scantlebury; Ypsilanti, Michigan; 2005

And we’re sure Larry’s children miss their dad.

The people who run the record labels live in a very sick world, and in the meanwhile, p2pnet reader Rafael Venegas says in a comment post:

Pretending that heirs be made responsible for responding to a lawsuit against their father is a very interesting proposition. Some possible ramifications are…

How about sending to jail the children of criminals who die in jail without completing their sentences? The children would then complete the sentence, unless they prove their father was innocent. Surely some lawyer will make money on the new case.

How about suing a person who is dying or in an irreversible coma, so that the children would have the burden of defending their parent alleged actions?

Here we are deling with a new legal principle and a new low: Sue the dying old. You cannot loose.

But do not underestimate the legal system. A jurisprudence will be found to support the new principle. That is what jurisprudence is for.

If I were a descendant of Al Capone, I would move to another country, as they could send me to prision.

Meanwhile, Kimberly Arellanes, the wife of Frank Arellanes, another serving American soldier, is also in the RIAA’s sights, and we’re sure there are many more American service people among the 19,000 or so victims of the Big Four’s twisted sue ‘em all marketing campaign.

(Thanks, Ray)

Also See:
on notice - RIAA targets dead man’s kids, August 12, 2006
sue ‘em all marketing campaign - RIAA goes fishing, August 11, 2006

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