p2pnet news | RIAA News:- When a Judge agreed with the RIAA’s claim that ‘making available’ was actionable under the Copyright Act, in Atlantic v Howell, the RIAA was quick to bring this ‘authority’ to the attention of the judges in Elektra v Barker and Warner v Cassin.

Those judges were considering the same issue.

When that decision was overturned successfully, however, they weren’t so quick to inform those same judges of this new development.

When the defendants’ lawyers found out – a week after the RIAA’s lawyers learned of it – they had to notify the judges themselves.

We can only speculate as to what legal authorities they cited to the judge in Duluth, Minnesota, to get him to instruct the jurors that just ‘making available’ was good enough.

Ray Beckerman – Recording Industry vs The People

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