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Faust

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Student gets sued for life savings
« on: 9 June 2003, 23:37 »
In case you havent seen it yet, check it out.

http://slashdot.org/articles/03/06/09/1311255.shtml?tid=123&tid=141&tid=188&tid=99

This is very fucked up right here.
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« Reply #1 on: 9 June 2003, 23:54 »
Egads. So the RIAA ruins his whole life for something perfectly legal (ie search engine), only for intimidation and for a measly $12,000, a small amount compared to their billions? All this just to make them get off his case???

This is revolting!

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« Reply #2 on: 9 June 2003, 23:57 »
Yeah I would very much like to hear someone justify this bullshit.  Honestly ninety percent of the legal proffesion are filthy vultures that need to be put down for the good of society.  Their corporate masters arent any better either.  It's sad to think that I live in a system that would do this kind of bullshit.  Fuck the RIAA.
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« Reply #3 on: 10 June 2003, 00:02 »
In the law courses at my university there is not one course on ethics.  They wonder why people don't trust them?  The first semester of course is on torts - torts is "lawyerspeak" for suing people.  In fact one of the exam questions gave a full account of some ladies day, detailing various mishaps, before asking the students to write an exam question on "who (detail why) could Mrs Brown sue?"

Filth.
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« Reply #4 on: 10 June 2003, 00:05 »
Sister was in a fender bender. Spent a short time in the hospital just as a precaution. Lawyers were calling asking how she was feeling the next day.

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« Reply #5 on: 10 June 2003, 00:09 »
When I was a kid I thought that those ambulance chasing jokes were just jokes.  Now I know better...   :(
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« Reply #6 on: 10 June 2003, 01:38 »
Correction: they did not sue him for the $12k. They wanted $12k as part of the settlement.

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« Reply #7 on: 18 June 2003, 17:41 »
This is certainly sad news, but it could have been worse, especially when you are dealing with the conglamoarte scum that incorporates the foundational levels of the RIAA.

The thing that pisses me off about America, is the fact that these types of trogdolytes are given the pass to dwell within the ranks of our society. The thing I love about America, is the fact that there is someoneo out there, someone that has the same piss and vinegar flowing through their veins, just like all of us; that they will look at this case, permit it to morph as many times as necessary, and spit this thing out, and right back, like a bolt of lightning.

I am sure this case is going to go a lot further than once first perceived.