Comments on: p2pnet talks to Harvard Tenenbaum Team

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:36:26 +0000

Its a matter of getting the word out and educating people.

When you have paid off people like McAfee blocking your site via their software, its felt.

By: NO1UNO

NO1UNO — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:55:15 +0000

“Ed. note. I am appalled. There are hundreds of other people out there, many of them totally innocent, who have no legal representation at all; there are scores of lawyers out there who have made enormous financial sacrifices to try to help some of these people; and Harvard Law School and the Berkman Center for “Internet and Society” — who waited more than 5 years to represent a single defendant, and then only at the request of the presiding judge — can’t do better than that? The RIAA lawyers are probably relieved to know that Harvard Law School’s “clinical” programs are not available to any other of the good people who can’t get legal representation in Massachusetts, but if I were a student at Harvard Law I would be feeling both frustrated and humiliated, right about now. Here they are handed a golden opportunity to do that which most of us went to law school to do, and their school is just passing it by. Sad. -R.B.]”

Sorry Ray, but this does look like rippin them a new one!!

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:36:32 +0000

@ Ray has torn you a new one:

It shouldn’t be any kind of surprised that I raised the question in question.

I said here – http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18582

” ‘If one lawyer can act for three or four, or more, clients simultaneously, just imagine what an entire team of keen young professionals with the incomparable resources of Harvard behind them, and a veteran law professor at the helm, will be able to do,â I thought to myself. I even made several references to this possibility in emails to one of the team members.

‘So Iâve been surprised and disappointed to notice this pool of heavy duty legal manpower seems instead to be locked into this single case, despite the fact Massachusetts unfortunately has a substantial supply of unrepresented defendants, with the extortionate ’settlements’ and ‘default judgments’rolling in against them on a seemingly continuous basis.”

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:33:03 +0000

Well, I guess the RIAA itself has 4th Amendment rights against the government. But private parties generally do not have standing under the Fourth Amendment to sue the RIAA.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:31:03 +0000

The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to the RIAA, just as it doesn’t apply to any private party (with some exceptions for agency — e.g., the police can’t just hire someone to search your home to avoid the constitutional issue).

By: Ray Beckerman

Ray Beckerman — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:48:38 +0000

Whoever wrote the above post couldn’t be more wrong. My post was actually a compliment to Jon and to p2pnet.net since Jon as the interviewer asked an important question and got the troubling answer… no one else has managed to elicit that key information until now. Every other interviewer has been asking for, and getting, a lot of fluff and nonsense. Jon went to the core, and got the core answer. For which I thank him.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:23:02 +0000

http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html#6220311363493538442

Ray has torn you a new one – this wil make the RIAA happy.