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Appeals Court Rules Against RIAA in DMCA Subpoena Case

Posted by michael on from the no-records-for-you dept.

JohnTheFisherman writes "My Way News is reporting that a Federal appeals court ruled that the RIAA can't compel the ISP to provide the name of the downloaders in their case against Verizon. In fact, the court said that one of the arguments the RIAA used 'borders upon the silly.' I believe most here will agree that this is great news." We've been following this case for a while.

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  1. Re:Go Judicial system! by eigor40 · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    ...except for the fact that a lot of those larger-than-life egos in the executive branch were put there by the judicial system in the first place.

    Nobody bats a thousand.

  2. Re:Have a reality check by Helpless+Will · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because we all know only Christians get married.

    Buddhists, Shintoists, Jews, Muslims, Zoastrians, Agnostics, Atheists, modern Druids, Wiccans, et al. never actually marry and / or produce offspring.

    Well, seeing as how you're advocating blind religous zealotry you probably do view their silly compacts of fidelity as something other than marriage.

    This is off topic derailment of the thread is all about American concepts of marriage, and the last I checked their was a rule specifying something about a seperation of church and state to prevent just such illogical ideas from polluting the lives of its citizenry.

    Like it or not, whether your narrow religously bound blindness allows for it or not, marriage as an institution, as a contract with legal ramifications, privileges and responsibilities exists outside of, and irrespective of, religion.

    Therefore, any argument against any form of marriage based solely on religious beliefs can, and probably should, be immediately ruled out as a viable one.

    Care to try again? Twit?

    -H

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  3. I love it... by Jonathan+Platt · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In one breath you abuse the corporations for outsourcing your jobs, and in the next you condone piracy. It is your own faults that you are ending up out of the job. I'd even go as far as to say it's poetic justice.

    The corporations of this world have every right to protect their investments in every way possible.

    By the way the current statistice show that 80% of a companies earnings go to the staff, so all this piracy should lead to about 40% of you loosing your jobs or getting pay cuts and it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people.

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