For those who thought the RIAA couldn't get any worse...

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: August 15, 2006 10:47:55 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: For IP: For those who thought the RIAA couldn't get any  
worse...

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060812-7487.html

 RIAA defendant dies, heirs given 60 days to grieve before depositions

8/12/2006 10:12:11 PM, by Anders Bylund

In the case of Warner et al v. Scantlebury, yet another individual  
was targeted
by seven record labels looking for restitution of the horrible damages
inflicted by the alleged downloading of music files. Most of the case  
documents
are not publicly available at this point, and the suit was not highly
publicised until now, so it's hard to find any real detail on the  
charges
involved.

Larry Scantlebury had the temerity to die before the case was  
resolved, though.
Again, the cause of death is unknown, but the RIAA did get a hold of  
a death
certificate. It was filed as support for a motion to "stay the case  
for 60 days
and extend all deadlines 60 days," filed by the record labels'  
lawyers. The
reason for the stay request is this:

    "Plaintiffs do not believe it appropriate to discuss a  
resolution of the
    case with the family so close to Mr. Scantlebury's passing.  
Plaintiffs
    therefore request a stay of 60 days to allow the family  
additional time to
    grieve."

How quaintly civil of them. Because the litigants believed that the  
case was
nearing a resolution before Larry's passing, it wants to move on with  
the
proceedings rather than drop the case, and will request depositions  
from his
heirs after the 60-day grieving period. Considering that deceased Enron
executive Ken Lay's assets may be safe from legal action after his  
death, the
recording industry's tenacity in this case is astounding.


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