Judge Gertner picks up on RIAA BS
p2pnet news view RIAA | TV:- “Judge Nancy Gertner has put another fly in the RIAA’s ointment,” p2pnet posted yesterday, going on
“The last thing Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG RIAA attack lawyers want is for people to see them live and in full, glorious colour – legal warts and all.
“But Gertner who, in the past, hasn’t been unsympathetic to RIAA victims, has now agreed to allow oral arguments in the Joel Tenenbaum vs the RIAA case, featuring Harvard profesor Charles Nesson and his team of student lawyers, to be televised online.”
RIAA nemesis and Slashdot hall-of-famer Ray Beckerman, publisher of Recording Industry vs The People, picked up on remarks from Gertner when she decided she wasn’t going to allow the RIAA to weasel out from under.
In his /. post, he pointed out she’d labeled as “curious” the record companies’ opposition to televising the proceedings, “since their professed reason for bringing the cases is deterrence, ‘a strategy [which] effectively relies on the publicity arising from this litigation’.”
Wrote Gertner »»»
At previous hearings and status conferences, the Plaintiffs have represented that they initiated these lawsuits not because they believe they will identify every person illegally downloading copyrighted material.
Rather, they believe that the lawsuits will deter the Defendants and the wider public from engaging in illegal file-sharing activities.
Their strategy effectively relies on the publicity resulting from this litigation …
Meanwhile, the oral arguments will be heard at on January 22 and if you want to capture the RIAA live (so to speak 
) and in action, contact Courtroom View Network counsel Jonathan Sherman @ 202-237 9605.
Needless to say, I’d love to get a copy of one (or more ) of the videos which, I’m absolutely 100%, cast-iron, solid gold, carved-in-rock certain, will show up on YouTube and elsewhere.
Cheers!
Jon Newton – p2pnet
January , 2009
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January 15th, 2009 at 10:56 am
“Their strategy effectively relies on the publicity resulting from this litigation …”
Read “extortion, fear-mongering, lying, manipulation” etc.
January 15th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
It would stand to reason that the RIAA lawyers, like other vermin of the night, prefer to do their work in the dark shadows behind the closed doors of the court room.
I mean, imagine what the people would think, if they saw the RIAA lawyers trying to fight a case whey they couldn’t bully the defendant, and also open up the probability that a whole slew of technical specialists/lawyers/judges actually realize this farce for what it really is. I mean… these lawyers would loose their cash cow, and the RIAA would need to find another excuse on why they aren’t paying all of their artists.
Just my two cents
January 16th, 2009 at 8:00 am
It won’t be on CNN, Fox News, or MSNBC.