A California man says the RIAA’s so-called Clean Slate program is “hollow and deceptive”.

Eric Parke is suing the association, saying its offer is designed to get people to incriminate themselves and provide the RIAA “and others” with “admissions” through which they could land in court, in spite of having signed the RIAA affidavit.

“The RIAA describes the program as ‘Clean Slate’ but yet does not promise to destroy any data or evidence collected on members of the general public who submit affidavits under the ‘program’ leaving the ’slate’ anything but ‘clean’ for those Copyright owners or Government prosecutors who subpoena such information from the RIAA. This lawsuit seeks a remedy to stop the RIAA from engaging in unlawful, misleading, and fraudulent business practices including advertising an ‘Amnesty Program’ that does not provide real amnesty from lawsuit and a ‘Clean Slate Program’ that does not provide a real ‘clean slate’.”

Source: p2pnet.net