New Dismissal Motion in File Sharing Case

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "A new motion to dismiss an RIAA peer-to-peer file sharing case has been made, this time in Brooklyn federal court, in Atlantic v. Huggins, reports Recording Industry vs. The People. As in Elektra v. Santangelo, the RIAA had served a boilerplate complaint alleging generally 'downloading' ,uploading', and 'distributing', but without naming any specific acts. Defendants' lawyers argue that "the Complaint alleges in conclusory fashion and upon information and belief that defendant used "an online media distribution system" to download and distribute certain alleged copyrighted recordings to the public, and/or to make such recordings "available for distribution to others." but "makes no attempt to describe the specific acts of infringement or the dates and times on which they allegedly occurred.""

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Re:At Last....

[zappepcs]

"While outlawing the Internet might be a stupid move in the long run, it is VERY easy for any government to do it, and enforcing it isn't that difficult."

You fool, go ahead, stop commerce, stop the Internet, try it... you obviously have no clue that you live in the empire of the doller.... pitty you.

You obviously paid out for $250/plate dinners for political people that never got anywhere. You have no clue what commerce in the real world is.

The Internet has enabled commerce, both in North America and the world that the affected governments could not have accomplished. Yes, you think isolationist, keep that up, and you will be one of the people that my tax dollars are used to support. Get off your face and realize that the world is small these days. You can't be isolationist, unless you want to wither and die. Commerce happens on a global scale now, the Internet is global, and its unregulated... plus (read this next part slowly so you understand) its functioning better and more efficiently than any government on the face of the earth. Free trade actually works, when its actually free....

Your belief in certain people to rule how your business is run is absolutely foolish. Business runs best when there are no restrictions, or government subsidies of certain industries... Just let one airline fail and the rest will soon be in a boon situation... everybody eventually benefits. Arggghhh I so dislike when you 'special' people think you know how to run the global economy by not participating in it.

geeez, can we get a 'fsck you' here?