RIAA News: On the Importance of Elektra v. Barker

Via The Recording Industry vs. The People.

What is the most important RIAA case in the country?

Arguably it's Elektra v. Barker, pending in Manhattan federal court before Judge Kenneth Karas, a recently appointed judge who is a former federal prosecutor.

Not because there's anything different about the complaint -- it's the exact same boilerplate complaint the RIAA has used in 19,000 other cases.

Not just because Ms. Barker made a motion to dismiss the complaint -- i.e. attempting to stop the lawsuit in its tracks on grounds that would be fully applicable to ALL the RIAA's cases -- because there are probably a dozen other cases in which such motions have been made and are pending.

It is the most important case because the RIAA has made it so.

The RIAA apparently made a considered decision to choose this time and place to go for broke.

More here.