Ed's Bootlegs (inc. Supreme Court summons), not so legal after all? Options

[OutToDry]

I've been searching for public notes on what may be happening in the courtroom, here's one of them. I suspect the selling of bootlegs on Ed's website are not legal as they appear.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/05/18/New_Complaints.htm

Rock and RollThree members of the band Live claim their former lead singer Edward Kowalczyk owes them $225,000 for music he sold on his Web site, in New York County Court.

This post has been edited by OutToDry: Jun 14 2010, 2:59 pm

[Pokey]

Maybe Ed had already decided to go solo. And maybe, just maybe, his buddies Pat, Chad, and Chad wanted to talk him into staying with Live instead. One thing leads to another, and Ed says he'll stay, but only under these conditions... An 'ultimatum' could reasonably be reached from this angle. But oh wait, that doesnt fit very well with the 'everything TGF says is golden, and da EK is a douche because he took over the band and screwed his friends (I only believe this because everything TGF says is golden)' crowd.

You guys all seem to assume that Ed just walked up to his friends one day, handed them a contract that said he was taking over the band or would leave, and then forced them to sign it.

So to make a long story short, we have no idea how this all transpired. And we never will.

Now let's all continue to beat the dead horse...

Well they're obviously sure enough about their side of things to take it to court which I think is a pretty serious indicator.

You say all the "maybe, just maybe", it could be "maybe, just maybe" all the other way too. The thing that makes me think that TGF's side is correct isn't just what they say, but what Ed says and does too. I'm not personally following them blindly, what they say just seems to fit hand in glove with the sort of character you could see Ed becoming. There's lots of reports here and there for awhile about his character turning to mush.
You could say "maybe, just maybe" that TGF have capitalised on Ed's bad standings with people and concocted this plan to make him look like the bad guy, but that's really stretching conspiracy theories a bit far.

In the end, to me, the TGF guys come off as down to earth blokes with flaws I'm sure, Ed comes across as an egotistical dick with some upsides I'm sure. But to me Ed just seems like the aggressor and the instigator of the trouble in this situation.
It's well documented back in 2001 that Ed wrote most of V on his own and that CT said that it hurt because up until that point they were a team. He loved writing music, but then he said he understood that Ed needed to try something on his own. So there's already a history there from long ago of Ed wanting to write solo. The pieces just all fit much smoother with Ed saying "I write everything or I leave", as opposed to "Hey guys I'm gonna do some solo stuff now" "No wait Ed don't go, stay and you can write everything!".
You have to believe that if Ed gave them the option of "hey I'm gonna do a solo thing for a couple of years then we'll get back to writing together ok?" the other guys would have jumped for it, it's obvious how much writing music meant to them. They'd have probably taken that chance.

I'm sure it's not all TGF as total innocents and Ed as total evil, there's got to be some mud slung from other side, but in the end I believe that the foundation of the story to be as we see in the summons complaint, the minor details may vary a little but yeah..

Your turn to continue beating, this side of the horse is looking quite tender already.