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'Jane Doe' Lawyer Glenn Peterson Talks With GrepLaw
scubacuda writes "Glenn Peterson, attorney at McDonough Holland & Allen, represents 'Jane Doe,' one of the first to fight the constitutionality of recent RIAA subpoenas. In this GrepLaw interview, Glenn gives his thoughts on recent RIAA strong arm tactics, Matt Openheim's assertion that Jane Doe's arguments have 'already been addressed by a federal judge,' and the danger of giving subpoena power to anyone pretending to have a copyright claim."
SCO is controlled by the Mormon Church!
Saints and Satyrs, go your way.
Youths and Maidens: Let us pray.
Well isn't this another great story! Post something good for fucks sake!
SCO is controlled by the Mormon Church!
Perhaps you did not realize that we are not longer an autonomous entity - we are a business unit of VA Software. In order to survive as such, we must define and meet certain business goals. The most important goal is ad click-through rate. Since shutting down the site would almost guarantee we would miss this business goal, we not able to shutdown the site. Sorry if this bothers you but this is how business works.
-CmdrTaco
And the Mormon Church is controlled by the morons!!!
This is the trollfest! Party!
Eh, no, no joke, there's a lot of trolls in this thread, I just want to point that.
You, people, you can't keep your backyard clean!
Ask a mormon his opinion, he/she'll confirm!
PURITY!
I'm a full-time student at Santa Monica College (located in a suburb of Los Angeles), and here's the skinny: Most niggers on campus don't even attend my school, come onto school grounds drunk/high, and attempt to procure women. For the select few afri-coons that managed to correctly spell their name on their application (read: IQ higher than 85, a true rarity in the porch monkey species), where are they two weeks into the semester? More than likely, they dropped the class since it was too intense. Wait, to paraphrase the little bastard whale shits: "damn muh muthafuckah sheait muthafuckin class be too hard homey where da weed at an' da bitches?".
Seriously folks, I know it's a great feeling to vent your opinions on these wellfare-leeching bastards, but you honestly have no worries. With the economy in the gutter, these niggers are committing crimes at an ever increasing rate. They do it to themselves: AIDS, prison, narcotics sales and abuse, their "music". I'll always oppress niggers until the day I die. Nothing makes me feel better than a nigger that's down, that's the best time to really kick 'em.
Here's one of my favorite pastimes: social engineering on niggers. These greasy lazy bastards are soo fucking naive when it comes to topics/situations outside selling dope and fucking trashy, low-life STD infested broads. They announce their inferiority to the entire planet through their clothing, taste in "music", their "ebonics", etc. Just pick a nigger out of the crowd and pump him full of mis-information. Throw his day off. Lace your conversation with plenty of racist innuendo. That's what I do.
A special message to a niggers reading this: Remember, I'm the affluent white male, others like me have similar viewpoints in regards to your race. We control this country. If you feel I'm the exception, you're entirely incorrect. You bastards don't stand a chance in this society, go back to your disease-ridden country of A-F-R-I-C-A.
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we don't need your stinking corepirate nazi shysters/hucksters/bootlickers, etc...
how much does it cost US to defend ourselves from the georgewellian fuddite execrable/yOUR representatives?
screw the phonIE monIE, it's the lives of the innocents that is the real badtoll. passing more&more monIE on to these felons, buy humouring their hostage ransom assault on US, is what's really wrong with US.
tell'em robbIE, or are you aFraUD too?
You make it seem as if they're picking out random names and rolling with that. I don't know the cases in particular which have gone to court, but if they had enough evidence, then they had enough evidence.
Since they don't have to file suit to run someone in, they can pick an undesirable person and parade them around publicly as some sort of miscreant who is stealing from the hard working musicians, technicians, and record executives.
So a thief is not a miscreant? Musicians, record execs, and technicians, are they not hardworking? This is rubbish to blame the (what is it) 'greedy' songwriters. Do you know that not everyone is born with a silver spoon in their mouth. The artists are certainly going to want to protect themselves against thieves because after all, any way you cut it, someone is stealing. Sure it is not the same concept of a physical theft, but nevertheless the music is indeed getting stolen.
So let's put this in perspective layman terms now. Some college e-tard decides to place 30 albums online well let me knock this down to 2 albums which by far is low. Each album costs (low crackhead price) $5.99, and he is getting about 1000 connections. Now without factoring in those who will in turn place the song right back up to burn, $5990.00 has now been stolen from the recording industry. Multiply this up to 100 albums per year $599,000.00 but this is only for 1000 connections mind you, Kazaa has what 2million users? Let's be fair and say only 1% did this you would have 20k users multiplied by the crackhead price of $5.99 per album and you have $11,980,000.00 in losses. But don't worry we'll turn this into a 'hell no we won't go' situation online simply because the record companies want to be paid for their creations.
The tactic of any defense suit should be to challenge the DMCA on fourth amendment grounds.
Are you nuts? The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized How is this an unreasonable search and seizure when someone is stealing? I could see if no warrants were issued, and there was no proof, but the facts remain if someone is stealing they deserve to be charged, and those willing to use the shield of the constitution to hide illegal actions should be slapped with a rotten fish.
Nowhere in the US constitution is the right to subpoena, search, and seize given to corporations or their representatives.
Corporations are shielded read on:
I have always preferred the idea of targeting individuals who were infringing rather than mass lawsuits against "P2P", which was their tactic until recently. The method for doing this s
MoFscker
Indeed, but having an open mind doesn't mean accepting all views as equal. It simply means considering the possibility. I've thought about this issue, and I believe it's not only completely infeasable, but also counter-intuitive to the capitalistic methods under which most North Americans operate. It has nothing to do with having an open mind, just realistic and practical views.
The parent poster is clearly attacking the merit of such a system.
Actually, the parent poster was claiming that copyright has no place because (s)he believes that creativity itself outweights profit. I respectfully disagree, since without copyright law, I could spend years creating a novel only to have someone copy it near-verbatim and profit from my efforts. This may not be an issue if I were writing as a hobby, but this obviously does not apply to all writers.
A person who is able to sell his work to a person willing to support him has that right, but no more.
Absolutely. I never suggested that anyone with a guitar and a CD burner deserves to have money thrown at them, only that they should be able to turn a profit from their efforts.It's not a question of an individual creating something, so much as it is an issue of having someone else claim pass off that work as their own and benefit financially from that. In fact, the parent poster claims theh (s)he would like to receive credit. Without copyright, what is preventing me from copying everything (s)he releases, changing a few words, and passing it off as my own work
If, as you say, people actually use their own morals and values to determine what creative works are profitable and/or distributed, then this should not be an issue to begin with.