Judge Approves Public Broadcast Of RIAA Lawsuit
from the educate-us,-please dept
Harvard Law prof. Charlie Nesson has been leading a case challenging the constitutionality of a core part of the RIAA's continuing lawsuit strategy. Late last year, he asked a judge if the trial itself could be broadcast live over the internet, noting that the RIAA claimed the lawsuits were part of its education campaign, so he couldn't see why they would object. Of course, they did object, but the judge has sided with Nesson, and the court proceedings will be broadcast live next Thursday, January 22nd on the Berkman Center's website. The judge repeated Nesson's points in responding to the RIAA's objection, noting that the RIAA's objection seemed "curious" considering its previous claims of this being an educational campaign. Nesson and his law students had clearly done their homework on the judge. As the article notes, in 2007, the judge (Nancy Gertner) had testified on Capitol Hill on the importance of broadcasting more trials over the internet and television.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: charles neeson, constitutionality, fines, joel tenenbaum, lawsuits, penalties
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The request was for those that won't be seeing this blog as it will be well buried on the 22nd.
Of course, the next time I won't think about others. How rude of it was for me suggest the link.
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pleas keep that in mind.
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It's the repeated, consistent and unique use of a name that gives it any meaning in contexts such as these. For example, the name "nasch" tells you nothing about my identity, but I'm the only one using it on this forum. So if you notice me being a dick, or being insightful, or whatever, you can apply that judgment to my future posts.
To make a long story short, if he's the only one going by AJ around here, that's as good as it gets and much better than anonymous coward.
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TAKE THAT RIAA!
Now lets see them go down in a blaze of Humiliation!
Not 1 cent to the RIAA or anyone/everyone whom supports them!
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NEVER PAY FOR MUSIC!!! EVER!!!
Support your favorite bands by going to their concerts and buying their merchandise at the concert. Not by buying their CDs.
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Don't get your hopes up.
Remember, the RIAA's program was never based on strong legal arguments. It was and always has been about using the legal system to shake down poor saps who can't afford to put up a good defense.
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Not Quite The Same
So we're only seeing the hearing on the 22nd, not the actual trial itself (at least, that hasn't been determined yet). Also, i'm still unclear on exactly how this 'narrowcasting' is going to work. I haven't been able to find anything on their distribution plans, particularly nothing that says 'free' or 'available to everyone.' I'd love to be proven wrong, but...
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Charlie Nesson, his family, his dog and family friends are in the RIAA sites. Maybe the RIAA will sent a group of it's associates to 'meet and greet' them.
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Wondering...
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*for those who don't get it, I am not Easily Amused.
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I agree 100%.
George Bush
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For Sale
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could be interesting
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Nesson and poker
Nesson founded the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society, which we talked about at my site.
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That's why I never bother to post under one. If a site requires me to register, I just visit less and never post. But I barely post anyway.
This site serves a lot of people. Some are trolling. But using technology to control people's behavior seems to oppose some of the principles this site endorses.
Just because some people misuse something doesn't mean that thing is bad.
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RIAA Broadcast
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That's really unusual. I didn't ever realize that "sight unseen" was wrong. I always see it spelled that way but I usually spot those kinds of things. nasch, you are smart.
Thought: a class action lawsuit as countersuit against the RIAA for frivolous lawsuits--including, as class, all those sued to date by the RIAA. we can haz?
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