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P2P Defendant Destroys Evidence, Case Defaults

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wrong-ways dept.

neoflexycurrent writes "A court in Texas has thrown the book at a defendant accused by the RIAA of file sharing. The court determined that she had intentionally wiped her hard drive clean, so it entered the most severe sanction possible — default judgment against her. The record companies now just have to ask the court how much they want in damages."

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  1. wow by nwmann · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    wow

  2. If you want to understand their view by also-rr · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Here are some animation tools Blender, Synfig. Go away and do something cool - say 60 seconds of original animation with some artistic merit.

    Then give it away, including the source files you used to make it.

    If it's any good it'll be hard. Really, trust me on this. I am very pro open content and I was shocked how hard it was to actually give things away. (More so with my writing than with animation, and I won't even try to kid myself that it would ever be good enough to sell.)

    Not only has it massivly increased my respect for those who *do* give away significant work under the GPL and similar licenses, it's also I hope made me a small amount less hypocritical in holding the view that all information should be Free. But I can't say that I view casual piracy the same way I did before either.

    --
    Think of the Children; Sleep with your Sister
  3. New mac Mini (Submission) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    About seven months ago, I wrote a post on this blog about being turned down when I needed to order a large batch of minis. I was told they couldn't take large orders at that time. Six days later, the new Intel mini was released. It then made sense.

    Well, guess what just happened again.

    I needed to order another bunch to use as Mac mini servers (and to add to my great wall of Apple boxes) but I was told by the reseller (name withdrawn so they don't get in trouble) that they can't take big orders (again), but after Labor Day they'd be able to ship plenty of the new model.

    New model? What?

    I know Apple releases very little, even to their resellers, but this is interesting. AppleInsider did report that Apple (was) to refocus on consumers post Labor Day. A new mini to dock the new iPod maybe?

    Let's see if FreeMacBlog can call it again.