U. Maine Law Students Trying To Shut RIAA Down

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Yet again it appears that the RIAA, one of ICANN's
GNSO constituency members has been actively violating
the law, or so it seems.  Seems also these U. Maine
law students have them by the short and curlies, as it
were...

  When will the IPC get the message that the RIAA and
their brethren are actively engaged in activities
that seek to destabalize the Internet and revoke their
membership accordingly?

Backdrop, score: script kiddy law students 4, Professional
credentialed RIAA legal staff 0...  Looks like a shutout
to me...  Frankly, if I were one of those RIAA lawyers,
I would be seriously considering a change in my profession,
like Janatorial Engeneer maybe?

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http://vanfeliu.com/attorneyProfile-Beckerman.htm NewYorkCountryLawyer writes 
"Remember http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/22/1928246&tid=123 those 
pesky student attorneys from the University of Maine School of Law's Cumberland 
Legal Aid Clinic, who inspired the Magistrate Judge to suggest 
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/29/2230246&tid=123 fines against 
the RIAA lawyers? Well they're in the RIAA's face once again, and this time 
they're 
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2008/04/university-of-maines-legal-aid-clinic.html
 trying to shut down the RIAA's whole 'discovery' machine: the lawsuits it 
files against 'John Does' in order to find out their
names and addresses. They've gone and filed a 
http://www.ilrweb.com/viewILRPDF.asp?filename=arista_does1-27_080401Rule11MotionRule
 11 motion for sanctions (PDF), seeking among 
other things — an injunction against all such 'John Doe' cases, arguing 
that the cases seek to circumvent the Family Educational Rights and Privacy 
Act which protects student privacy rights, are brought for improper purposes 
of obtaining discovery, getting publicity, and intimidation, and are in 
flagrant violation of the joinder rules and numerous court orders. If the 
injunction is granted, the RIAA will have to go back to the drawing board 
to find another way of finding out the identities of college students, and 
the ruling — depending on its reasoning might even be applicable to 
the non-college cases involving commercial ISPs."

Regards,

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