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Etc: As expected, the RIAA has appealed a decision slashing the damages Joel Tenenbaum is required to pay by a factor of ten.
As expected, the RIAA has appealed a decision slashing the damages Joel Tenenbaum is required to pay by a factor of ten. Read More: Recording Industry Vs The People , Ars Technica Read the comments on this post
Continue reading »John Perry Barlow? No Way! says RIAA
RIAA lawyers have become seriously discombobulated in the Big Music vs a Boston Student case. One of the people Harvard professor Charles Nesson and his a team of law students want to call as an expert witness in defence of their client, Joel Tenenbaum, is John Perry Barlow. But, No Way! says Eve Burton, the Holmes Owen & Bird lawyer listed as “ supervising attorney for the Recording Industry Association of America” a year ago.
Continue reading »Brazilian President Shows Warmth To Pirate Bay Spokesman
Since 2005, Brazilian senator Eduardo Azeredo has been proposing new ‘cybercrimes’ legislation. Unlike some European proposals, the Brazilian one isn’t limited to dealing with copyright issues alone, but has expanded to include all “dangerous” online activities. Anyone creating a virus or simply sharing illicit files could be arrested and jailed for up to three years.
Continue reading »Bar FSF brief in Tenenbaum, demands RIAA
“We don’t make (much) music here at the Free Software Foundation , so it’s natural for people to wonder why the FSF has been standing up for individuals targeted by lawsuits launched by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA),” said FSF operations manager John Sullivan (right) yesterday, going on: “Most recently we filed an *amicus curiae* brief in the case of *Sony BMG Music Entertainment, et al. v. Joel Tenenbaum* showing the RIAA’s theory of statutory damage awards to be unconstitutional.” Filing the brief isn’t the only FSF contribution, p2pnet noted, pointing out the foundation is also working with Recording Industry vs The People’s Ray Beckerman on the expert witness fund, which has helped RIAA victim Jamie Thomas , among others.
Continue reading »Craigslist drops online Red Light District
Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal called Craigslist ‘erotic services’ listings a ‘blatant Internet brothel’. Now Craigslist will replace them with a section where ads are “individually checked” by employees before they’re posted, says CNN . Craigslist representatives met in New York with Blumenthal and the attorneys general of Missouri and Illinois, “all of whom asked the company to shut down its ‘erotic services’ sections in their states,” says the story Cook County, Illinois, Sheriff Thomas Dart called Craigslist “the single largest source of prostitution in the nation,” the story says, quoting Blumenthal as saying: “I was informed by Craigslist late last night that it will eliminate the ‘erotic services’ section within seven days, create a new section called ‘adult services’ and manually review every ad posted there to bar flagrant prostitution and pornography.” Follow p2pnet on Twitter .
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