Mom, and Now Judge, Stand Up to RIAA

Nom du Keyboard writes "First there was the mother, Patricia Santangelo, who has refused to roll-over to RIAA demands to pay their extortion fee because they claim to have identified her IP address as involved in Kazaa file sharing. Now Judge McMahon doesn't seem to be letting the RIAA have it all their way either in this case. Godwin's Law summarizes the rebuke of Judge McMahon to the RIAA lawyer now that a court case has been filed. A transcript of the entire court appearance is also available."

Comments

Re:I too...

[Garwulf]

I am so sick of this argument, it makes me see red.

Give me just ONE example of where COPYRIGHT (NOT trademarks, and NOT patents) prevents innovation. Just one. In fact, I'll settle for a conceptual model. You see, I've heard this argument again and again, and I've never seen anybody actually manage to justify that statement about copyright stifling innovation.

In fact, it's COPYRIGHT that protects the open source movement from being downright raped by corporations like Microsoft! For that matter, do you even know what copyright is? Do you know what you can and can't copyright?

Don't bother to reply unless you can actually put your money where your mouth is. Either provide some concrete evidence, or can it!

(And by the way, you may be a software author, but the general term of "author" is earned when you publish your first book.)