RIAA MediaSentry controversy

Written by tinfoil on Monday, 23 October 2006 20:42

p2pnet.net News:- The members of the Big Four Organized Music cartel say Brooklyn mother and home health aide Marie Lindor has been illegally distributing music online.

Lurking darkly in the background is the seriously discredited MediaSentry, a company which makes its money by claiming to be able to provide the equally discredited Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, with information on alleged file sharers whom, assert the multi-bllion-dollar labels, are ruining them.

The Big Four, Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal, accused of price fixing and bribery in the US, claim every one of their hundreds of millions of customers, including children, is a potential "criminal" and "thief" bent on robbing the labels of what's rightfully theirs.

Lindor says not only didn't she distribute music online, she's never even used a computer.

But the Big Four's RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) implies she's lying, basing its allegation partly or wholly on data supplied by MediaSentry.

In Canada, when the company was working for RIAA clone the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association of America), justice Konrad von Finckenstein was singularly and quotably unimpressed by MediaSentry 'evidence' and in Holland, the District Court of Utrecht decided MediaSentry's investigation of p2p file sharing wasn't only flawed, it was "unlawful".

Now, Marie Lindor's lawyers are in effect demanding that the RIAA put up or shut up, challenging its attempts to designate its contracts with MediaSentry as "privileged" under the doctrines of "attorney client privilege" and "work product privilege," says Recording Industry vs The People.

What's in the contracts? Why are the Big Four so strenuously trying to avoid public disclosure?

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