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Ray Beckerman of Recording Industry vs. The People, with the help of other contributors, has done some research and found that the RIAA’s press release in the Wall Street Journal was not entirely truthful. The article said that the lawsuits had ended a while ago, while Ray claims that they continued all the way up to last week.
According to a report on Wired.com, the RIAA spokesman claims that the RIAA has not filed any new lawsuits “for months”; according to the Wall Street Journal report the RIAA stopped filing mass lawsuits “early this fall”; and the Associated Press was apparently told that the RIAA had stopped bringing new lawsuits in August.
Being very familiar with the RIAA’s penchant for “misspeaking”, even when under oath, I investigated the matter a bit, and learned that a large number of suits have been brought by the RIAA quite recently, one as recently as this Monday.
I knew that there was something suspicious about that article.