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INSIDE A FILE SHARING COURT PROCEEDING

SANCTUM SANCTORUM: INSIDE A FILE SHARING COURT PROCEEDING

Thanks to A Copyfighter’s Musings blog for pointing to a report by the Berkman Briefings Project.  The report is an insiders view of a court proceeding in the illegal filesharing lawsuit brought by Capital Records in which the Recording Industry is suing 40 defendants for allegedly providing access to and/or downloading illegal MP3 music files.

Interesting quote from the judge:

Even though the legal issues are far from settled, in closing the hearing, Judge Gertner noted one concrete effect of the RIAA lawsuits: she explained that, after becoming aware of the issues, ?the first thing we did is debrief our children.?

It would be interesting to know if the Recording Industry has sued a judge or a judge’s child or spouse for illegally downloading and sharing MP3 music files?

You may be interested in reading the following related posts:

  1. Rap Music Finally Caught Up…
  2. Supreme Court to Hear File Sharing Case
  3. Criminal Enforcement of Peer-to-Peer Piracy
  4. Reading, Writing, Arithmetic …. and File Sharing
  5. Contributory copyright infringement and pornography



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Posted by Douglas Sorocco, May 28, 2004 at 5:37 pm
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