RIAA and RICO

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All right, several problems:

1. One should never, ever be sentenced for a crime or even a tort basing on some power and money hungry corporation's allegations. The RIAA is a private body, not an impartial state's agency. An impartial judge can't adhere to the plaintiff's knowledge of facts and methods of measurement.

2. What's more, it's always up to the claimant to prove the claim. But this seems to be lost when big corporations enter the scene.

3. Why the ****ing **** is a private company ever allowed to explore a private person's computer? Something like that would never be allowed in Europe. Except maybe on the West from Poland if the company were the friend of the government.

I just wonder if a private person would ever be allowed by the court to explore anything at RIAA. The person would probably be told that it's up to the plaintiff to prove things and there are no special facilitations. Heh. I remember the case of a person molested at work whose record from the job's security cams was turned down because "illegally obtained", but big corporations will just get permission to search you computer like that. There are some things I like in Anglo-Saxon law, but there are things I don't. Guess to which category this case belongs.

 

People get their PCs confiscated and searched for evidence all the time in the US. How do you think they successfully prosecute the kiddie porn cases? I assume the proper search warrants are necessary, but then, we Americans live in a country where the authorities can tap our phone lines, search our PCs, read our e-mails and probably inspect our underpants without any warrants whatsoever. Afterall, we gotta catch Al Qaeda!! Take that you evil terrorists!

This shot-gun approach that RIAA uses doesn't strike me as all that unusual. In the US you can sue anyone for anything (just ask the Church of Scientology about that). Actually winning the suit, now that's another matter.

 

People have their computers searched here too but only by the police. Never by plaintiffs. A criminal private prosecutor (different from plaintiff who is only in civil law cases here) could probably fight for the right to be present during such a search but he wouldn't be the searcher. A plaintiff in a civil case? Oh no.

If that's a criminal charge, then I would understand police experts search computers in presence of RIAA reps. But it's completely unthinkable to allow the plaintiff to enter the defendant's property. Even a computer.

 

The RIAA again? Bloody hell, what a bunch of bastards. Where will they stop?