Copyright Law

Mitch Bainwol letter to Congressional Committees falsely represented that RIAA "discontinued initiating new lawsuits in August"

By Ty Rogers and Ray Beckerman

We have located the text of the December 23, 2008, letter which the RIAA's Mitch Bainwol sent to the Senate and House Judiciary and Commerce Committees.

It falsely represents to those committees: "we discontinued initiating new lawsuits in August".

As all of my readers know, this is a demonstrable lie. See, e.g. these cases, which represent just some of the cases that were brought in December.

The letter contains other misleading nonsense.

I would urge my readers to study Mr. Bainwol's letter, to write to the appropriate Congresspeople to tell them the truth, to ask questions in the letter such as what the NYS Attorney General was investigating when they had their little discussions, and -- most importantly -- to also pass this along to your friends.

December 23, 2008, Letter to Congressional Committees

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Full post as published by Recording Industry vs The People on February 05, 2009 (boomark / email).