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Charles Nesson, scourge of the labels, now must pay them
Joel Tenenbaum, the second P2P defendant to take his case to trial in the US, may never pay the $675,000 judgment currently filed against him—but someone on his legal team will soon be paying something . Judge Nancy Gertner has ruled that both Tenenbaum and his lawyer, Harvard Law’s Charles Nesson, are “jointly and severally liable” for some fees incurred by the RIAA during the trial. The ruling comes after the defense team inexplicably posted the very songs at issue in the case to the Internet, and Nesson posted a public link on his blog for anyone to download them.
Continue reading »Remarkable third trial coming for RIAA’s first P2P defendant
When Jammie Thomas (now Thomas-Rasset) became the first alleged P2P file-swapper to take her case all the way to trial and verdict, no one suspected that she would actually have three trials and verdicts, but that’s the case today, as the RIAA rejected a federal judge’s decision to slash Thomas-Rasset’s damage award. Instead, we’re headed to a truncated third trial on the issue of damages. The recording industry also made it clear this week that both Thomas-Rasset and Joel Tenenbaum (the second P2P defendant to go to trial and verdict) are, in its view, quite terrible people: lying, deceiving, irresponsible, and unreasonable.
Continue reading »Jammie Thomas-Rasset Says No to RIAA’s Proposal
Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the central figure in nation’s first file sharing case against an individual to have gone to litigation has refused to pay the settlement of $25,000 proposed by the recording industry for the charges to be dropped. The initial decision, which demanded the defendant to pay damage awards of $1.92 million for sharing 24 songs on Kazaa, was later reduced to $54,000 by the federal judge in the case. Ultimately, following the ruling of U.S.
Continue reading »Your car as a remote tracking system
If you’re in Massachusetts and you have reason to worry about cops siccing a tracking device onto your car, the EFF is in your corner. “The Supreme Court of Massachusetts recently held that officers may not place GPS tracking devices on cars without first getting a warrant,” writes Jennifer Granick in Deep Links , going on »»» The case, Commonwealth v. Connolly , was decided under the state corollary to the Fourth Amendment, and its reasoning may influence pending GPS tracking cases, including United States v.
Continue reading »Is ‘every fourth Swede’ a criminal ?
It doesn’t matter what news source you favour, or where it is, you’ll probably find a disingenuous entertainment cartel inspired story claiming a significant proportion of the citizens in the given country are criminals and thieves. With that in mind, in Sweden, within the most ‘download-intensive’ age bracket — that is, between 15 and 29 — “it appears that every fourth Swede is a criminal”. At least, that’s what a new SIFO survey, cited by The Local , says.
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