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p2pnet news | RIAA News:- “A US federal judge has shot down one of the Recording Industry Ass. of America’s key arguments in its brave pursuit of students, idiots and grandmothers it accuses of sharing music over peer-to-peer networks.”
That’s how The Register sums up the news that judge Neil V. Wake “totally eviscerated” the RIAA’s theories of ‘making available’ and ‘offering to distribute,’ as Recording Industry vs The People’s Ray Beckerman put it.
“It wasn’t that long ago that no one in the mainstream media was willing to pay any attention to the victims, instead parroting just about every piece of garbage the RIAA cared to trot out,” said a recent p2pnet post on Business Week’s in depth and in detail story on RIAA victim Tanya Andersen.
“But that, too, has changed, with more and more members of the corporate press carrying the other side of the story,” we went on.
With that in mind, “Talk about a case going full circle: U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake has rejected the RIAA’s motion for summary judgment in its claims against Pamela and Jeffrey Howell, completely reversing the ruling he’d made last August,” says a Los Angeles Times story.
“In a case centering on New York social worker Tenise Barker, Connecticut district judge Janet Bond Arterton threw out out the RIAA’s infamous ‘making available claim which, ‘comprises the bottom line for all the Big 4 P2P file sharing cases’,” p2pnet’s post on the decision said, going on >>>
“Prove it!” - she said in effect.
This time around, the RIAA was demanding a summary judgement against the Howells, claiming they’d infringed Big 4 copyrights.
But, “Prove it,” said judge Neil V. Wake, in effect.
Now, “In effect, Wake appears to demand proof from the RIAA that someone actually downloaded each song at issue, and that the defendant deliberately put those tracks into his or her shared folder,” says the LA Times, continuing:
“He also suggested that such a defendant might not be liable for direct infringement, because he or she wasn’t making a copy — the downloader was.
“Instead, the judge wrote that such behavior might constitute contributory infringement, which the RIAA didn’t allege in the Howell motion. Proving contributory infringement would require that Howell not only assisted in the unlawful copying, but also that he knew it was happening.”
These, “aren’t insurmountable hurdles for the RIAA,” says the LA Times, “but they’re not speed bumps, either.”
“This is a strange decision that is outside of the mainstream and inconsistent with countless court rulings on these issues,” Ars Technica has RIAA confused mouthsperson Cara Duckworth saying.
“We are currently considering all options going forward.”
Actually, Cara, you and the RIAA are going backwards.
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.Stumble It!
The Register - US beak pecks at RIAA’s ‘making available’ filesharing attack, April 30, 2008
p2pnet - Business Week on RIAA vs Tanya Andersen, April 25, 2008
Los Angeles Times - Judge rejects claim RIAA previously won, April 29, 2008
the decision - Another bad day for the RIAA, April 29, 2008
Ars Technica - Judge deals another blow to RIAA’s making available theory, April 29, 2008
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April 30th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Opps, I left my entire CD collection out on the front porch last night.
I hope nobody endangered my freedom by copying any of them, I could get into big trouble for that…
April 30th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Great picture! Ha!
April 30th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
“We are currently considering all options going forward.”
That’s right, staying positive is important. However, it can become hollow and empty speech.
Aside from setting a valuable precedent here (perhaps THE vp), it also defines “distribution”. Mediasentry downloaded songs, but not only is that entrapment, it proves nothing as they are biassed and unreliable witnesses and not objective. They could have hacked into the PC to get music also, something not foreign to them.
Besides, intent is not sufficient to prove the action. They haven’t even shown intent, as the victim may have been firewalled to prevent uploading. In any case it was accidental and the music was apparently placed there by someone else, probably for the sake of appearing to share in order for others to allow downloading.
I’m surprised anyone still uses Kazaa anyway, but I’m sure adults of their age wouldn’t be.
April 30th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
‘“This is a strange decision that is outside of the mainstream and inconsistent with countless court rulings on these issues,” Ars Technica has RIAA confused mouthsperson Cara Duckworth saying.’
Hahaa priceless. These ****s will use any means, legal, illegal, quasilegal and otherwise to further their rapacious greed, at the same time attempting to change laws and persuade authorities by threats, bribes and propaganda.
They should be wiped out. The interesting thing is that one of these days they WILL be, along with their misgotten wealth.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:52 am
AS George of the tv show “The Hour” suggested
make a cd of mixed music and burn it and place it on a bench or other place people sit.
Imagine if the RIAA woke up and millions a cds were everywhere.
OHHHH the HUMANITY no free music that people can enjoy that would be wrong