Submission + - RIAA Trying to Hide Info on Download Expenses
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "The RIAA is refusing to provide defendant's attorneys with the record companies' expenses-per-download in UMG v. Lindor, in Brooklyn. Although the Court ruled last November that Ms. Lindor is permitted to prove her allegation that the damages sought by the RIAA are "unconstitutionally excessive and disproportionate to any actual damages that may have been sustained", the RIAA is refusing to turn over any information about its expenses, needed to calculate the "actual damages". Ms. Lindor's attorneys have filed a motion to compel (pdf) the RIAA to turn over the information. Although the record companies had similarly tried to hide their revenue figures, they later conceded in papers their lawyers had publicly filed with the Court that the revenues were in the range of 70 cents per download, and eventually entered into a stipulation relating the to the actual numbers, which were kept confidential."
