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Judge In RIAA Test Case Calls DMCA Unclear

Posted by timothy on from the perhaps-the-judge-has-a-tape-deck dept.

otisaardvark writes "BBC News has an interesting article about how the judge has chided Congress for being inept and unclear. There are repercussions for both sides; primarily that the initial verdict will take far, far longer."

4 of 206 comments (clear)

  1. Great precident! by Jacer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In furhter cases against the DMCA, this ruling can be used to fight for fair use! Providing the appeals hold up of course...

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  2. Something strange going on here... by rongage · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Am I the only one getting a page that doesn't belong to the BBC?

    Doing a host -a on news.bbc.co.uk gives:

    root@portable:~# host -a news.bbc.co.uk
    Trying "news.bbc.co.uk."
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 33632
    ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 5

    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;news.bbc.co.uk. IN ANY

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    news.bbc.co.uk. 86043 IN A 64.246.28.230
    <br>
    ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
    bbc.co.uk. 1787 IN NS ns1.thny.bbc.co.uk.
    bbc.co.uk. 1787 IN NS ns.bbc.co.uk.
    bbc.co.uk. 1787 IN NS ns.reith.bbc.co.uk.
    bbc.co.uk. 1787 IN NS ns1.bbc.co.uk.
    bbc.co.uk. 1787 IN NS ns1.thdo.bbc.co.uk.
    <br>
    ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
    ns.bbc.co.uk. 1787 IN A 132.185.132.21
    ns.reith.bbc.co.uk. 3587 IN A 132.185.134.10
    ns1.bbc.co.uk. 1787 IN A 195.152.97.21
    ns1.thdo.bbc.co.uk. 6387 IN A 212.58.224.21
    ns1.thny.bbc.co.uk. 6387 IN A 38.160.150.21

    The IP address isn't matching any of the networks for the .bbc.co.uk domain - at least on my dns host.

    Anyone else getting this problem?

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    Ron Gage - Westland, MI
  3. Re:First post! by MAurelius · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Too bad they don't limit you more for bad spelling.

    You may 'preach about speach' but I'm yelling about spelling.

    Marcus

  4. Re:Ironic by geekee · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One comment from a judge who hasn't made a ruling yet hardly seems newsworthy at all. Doesn't surprise me someone had to go searching to find this article. Of course this comment isn't anti-RIAA, so I will stay at 1 instead of getting modded up to 4.

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