Joel being pursued for $4.5 million
We thought it was 7 songs.
An email from Joel
They showed the list very matter of factly at my deposition. Nesson says
something like “…7 songs…” They say, “Actually, we’re up to 30.”
Nesson replies, “Since when?”
Eve’s verbatim reply: “You should read the documents we’ve been filing.”
Their contention is that they’re pursuing liability for 30 songs in a schedule they disclosed to us in October of 2008; they did so without amending pleadings.
I#m tempted to say: “I told you so”
But this is exactly the modus operandi of the mafiaa that the followers of this terr– sorry education campaign witnessed many times before. If you resist them they demand more.
Scare tactics, making and example out of the unfortunate few. I used to personally oppose the idea of file sharing, but I’ve changed my views on that after seeing how the recording industry is dealing with it. The people running these record companies are crooks, themselves, and deserve every kick to the balls that can be delivered.
They’re trash, imo.
Good luck with the case, but we all know that money, not luck, runs the show.
this is why i use internet news protocol! p2p is DOA
What songs are you getting sued for??
good luck!
how many times have people, even as children, recorded a track onto a tape, and given it to their mates. the world has surely gone money mad.
Political mood could shift against the media companies very quickly, particularly if these kinds of abuses are well documented. I do think that middle class people who are close to average can still win out in the justice system but it really depends a lot on being pretty close to perfect as well, as the corporate legal team will find any imperfection in your personal life or what amounts to interogations, and they are recording all their conversations with you whereas you will have no access to their tapes.
I think you got a good team. I hope you win. I hope that the other lady who was sued asks for a retrial also. I want them to lose out on their new strategy of suing people randomly and asking for extortion money. I bet they are just trying to differentiate the market into people who they can charge for CD’s and people they can charge extortion money from. (And they can get a decent revenue from people settling.)
if artists want to release a song or a book to the world they should be happy with the satisfaction that their work is being heard/read by millions of people. once the song or book is out there it the artist should just let it go. if they want to make money they should go get a real job
Yeah, so a person who spends his or her life developing his or her skill and art and creating something new that people enjoy has to get a “real” job. It’s no different from any other job. Don’t tell people they have to work for free unless you’re willing to donate your life and time to something that you only hope people will be nice enough to pay you for.
Bottom line … If somebody has created something of value then you should pay if you want to enjoy it. Otherwise, use your own god-given hands and voice to create your own entertainment. That’s free.
And the same goes for that other form of thievery known as “sampling.” If you want music for free, learn to play it yourself. If you want to use the product of someone else’s effort, pay for it.
i will say good luck to you. i’m truly horrified at what these greedy producers are now doing.
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