The Lawyers always win!

[old&slow]

RIAA Vrs Pirates...lawyers win!

http://recordingindustryvspeople.blo...s-lawyers.html

Ha ha ha ha ha. RIAA paid its lawyers more than $16,000,000 in 2008 to recover only $391,000!!!

Big hat tip to my friend Jon Newton at p2pnet.net for uncovering these documents.

The RIAA's "business plan" is even worse than I'd guessed it was.

The RIAA paid Holmes Roberts & Owen $9,364,901 in 2008, Jenner & Block more than $7,000,000, and Cravath Swain & Moore $1.25 million, to pursue its "copyright infringement" claims, in order to recover a mere $391,000. [ps there were many other law firms feeding at the trough too; these were just the ones listed among the top 5 independent contractors.]

Embarrassing.

If the average settlement were $3,900, that would mean 100 settlements for the entire year.

As bad as it was, I guess it was better than the numbers for 2007, in which more than $21 million was spent on legal fees, and $3.5 million on "investigative operations" ... presumably MediaSentry. And the amount recovered was $515,929.

And 2006 was similar: they spent more than $19,000,000 in legal fees and more than $3,600,000 in "investigative operations" expenses to recover $455,000.

So all in all, for a 3 year period, they spent around $64,000,000 in legal and investigative expenses to recover around $1,361,000.

Shrewd.

[Intent_Fire]

Pirates FTW.
http://cristgaming.com/pirate.swf

[Tik-Tok]

I bet Mitch Bainwol got a huge bonus those years too, for being so vigilant against piracy.

[nonlinear]

but i don't think recovering money was their primary objective anyhow.

[broken_legs]

Originally posted by nonlinear
but i don't think recovering money was their primary objective anyhow.

scaring sheeple into continuing to support their out of date media empire is the goal.

[syritis]

are there even any sites that a non-apple user can d/l from?

i despise some of these (con)artists that will say in an interview that "music is a freedom of expression, it don't matter what kind of person you are, everyone enjoys music"
but all they really care about is getting paid for something they probably didn't even produce anyways. while calling everyone elves thieves.

[Cos]

edit: nm