Comments on: Leave Kazaa, AOL out, demands RIAA

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:18:30 +0000

If the whole case hinges on the fact that this material was made available on Kazza, how can they possibly have a case for excluding discussion of it in the case?

Clear and obvious nonsense.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:48:32 +0000

They made their WHOLE CASE against her because they claimed that she downloaded illegal music files FROM Kazzaa…and NOW they don’t want her to talk about Kazzaa because it might not look good for them?

What a bunch of hypocrytes!

By: The Angry Offender

The Angry Offender — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:17:22 +0000

File-sharing equivalent in the real world: a person in a library always leaves their favorite book on a small table beside a freely usable copy machine. Someone else walks up to the book while the owner’s not really paying any attention and copies off the entire book with the copy machine, and walks off with the freely made copy of the book.

Santangelo equivalent in this situation: the book author sues the owner of that copy of the book because they “made it available” by putting it on a table next to a copying machine.

Using that analogy, there is no way in hell a jury would give the case to the RIAA.