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Songs of Innocence: accused P2P users speak out
Let’s say it right up front: some large percentage of those targeted in the recent wave of P2P movie lawsuits are no doubt liable for their piratical behavior. But those who “didn’t do it” face an agonizing choice—pay $1,500 to $2,500 to settle the lawsuits brought by Dunlap, Grubb, & Weaver, or pay even more money for a lawyer to plead their innocence. And innocent or not, a case that goes to court always runs the risk of ending in a $150,000 fine.
Continue reading »EU vote opens the way to 3 strikes law
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The bitter war between online communities and the entertainment cartels has just been escalated. With the EU parliament scheduled to vote on a controversial EU telecom reform package, member states agreed to add a new paragraph, “prohibiting national authorities from excluding users from the internet without a court order,” p2pnet reported in May. However, in a move that in political doublespeak is being hailed as a ‘victory’ for consumers, and at the 11th hour, the clause, which would have protected people from the depredations of the Hollyood and the major record labels, has been drastically watered down.
Continue reading »Court Orders Expert Opinion in P2P Leecher Mod Case
In 2008, a German woman was wrongfully accused of distributing a pornographic movie via eD2K. She was using eMule in conjunction with what is commonly known as a ‘leecher mod’ – an addon to file-sharing software which stops the client from uploading material back to the Internet. Using a mod like this means that no offense of distribution could have been carried out.
Continue reading »Thomas lawyer: court must ban all MediaSentry evidence
Jammie Thomas was unable to convince a jury of her innocence the first time around. Now, as her retrial approaches, her new lawyer hopes to do better in court by asking the judge to make one small change to the trial: blocking the file-sharing evidence obtained by MediaSentry, one-time investigators for the RIAA. Thomas is now represented by Kiwi Camara , a former student of Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson , and Camara’s early court filings show a Nesson-like tendency to seek a dramatic ruling that strikes at the heart of the case.
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