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Lessons The Next Big Torrent Sites Will Learn From Mininova
In June 2005 when the now-famous Grokster decision was handed down, initial reaction was almost unanimous. The Internet was alive with this historic defeat – Grokster had been savaged by the Supreme Court, lost their case in the biggest possible way and would have to shut down. No other outfit would dare get involved in file-sharing again, was the knee-jerk assumption, since this case proved it was illegal.
Continue reading »Obama Taps 5th RIAA Lawyer to Justice Dept.
President Barack Obama is tapping another RIAA attorney into the Justice Department. Monday’s naming of Ian Gershengorn , to become the department’s deputy assistant attorney of the Civil Division, comes more than a week after nearly two-dozen public interest groups, trade pacts and library coalitions urged the new president to quit filling his administration with lawyers plucked from the Recording Industry Association of America . The move makes it five RIAA lawyers Obama has appointed to the Justice Department.
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