should Pepsi be sued for it's commercial?

should Pepsi be sued for it's commercial?

johnny2cunts@hanmail.com	2/2/2004 9:20:41 PM
http://p2pnet.net/story/677 "Falsely attributing criminal conduct" "It's all in good spirit," says Dave Burwick, chief marketer, Pepsi, North America. Josh Wattles, however, doesn't think that adequately describes the commericial. In fact, "Falsely attributing criminal conduct to someone is a slam-dunk libel in just about every state," he says. "There's no calculus of relative harm to justify this kind of abusive, untruthful and cynical behavior towards minors no matter how complicit their misguided parents may have been in this deception."



"Arthur L. Rubin"	2/3/2004 10:01:44 AM
johnny2cunts@hanmail.com wrote: http://p2pnet.net/story/677 "Falsely attributing criminal conduct" "It's all in good spirit," says Dave Burwick, chief marketer, Pepsi, North America. Josh Wattles, however, doesn't think that adequately describes the commericial. In fact, "Falsely attributing criminal conduct to someone is a slam-dunk libel in just about every state," he says. Exactly what RIAA is doing.



"Richard"	2/3/2004 12:44:43 PM
Arthur L. Rubin wrote: johnny2cunts@hanmail.com wrote: Exactly what RIAA is doing. Somebody should file a class action lawsuit against the RIAA for extortion and possibly racketeering. They target teenagers because they know the kid is doing the downloading without the parent's knowledge. Threaten the parents, just because the IP showed they were on line at the time, even though more than account can use the same IP, with some meager sum like 2 or 3,000 bucks while making inuendos that it will cost 10 times that for an attorney if the case goes to court. So the ignorant parents pay the ransom demand and life goes on. If the RIAA ever comes after me, they'll be in court for damn sure. Because they will have to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that I downloaded the stuff onto my machine and there is no way in hell they can do that outside of my home.



hollaar@faith.cs.utah.edu (Lee Hollaar)	2/3/2004 7:29:27 PM
In article <bvoq3g01v7o@enews2.newsguy.com> "Richard" <anonymous@127.000> writes: If the RIAA ever comes after me, they'll be in court for damn sure. Because they will have to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that I downloaded the stuff onto my machine and there is no way in hell they can do that outside of my home. Richard's lack of understanding of law comes through again. The RIAA won't "have to prove beyond any reasonable doubt." That's the requirement for a criminal trial, which for copyright infringement can only be filed by the U.S. Attorney. For a civil suit, such as filed by the RIAA, the burden of proof is the preponderance of the evidence -- the tipping of the scale ever so slightly their way. I think a lot of us would enjoy seeing "Richard" try to defend himself in court. And he wouldn't even have to be defending himself to have a fool for a client.

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