RIAA Wants to Include Song Files it Can't Produce

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In UMG v. Lindor the RIAA is trying to include song files it doesn't have copies of as part of its 'distribution' argument. The defendant Marie Lindor is asking the Court to preclude them from doing that. She points to the RIAA's own interrogatory response in which the record companies swore that their case was based upon their investigator seeing a screenshot and then downloading 'perfect digital copies'. They produced eleven (11) copies of song files, but want to be able to prove twenty seven (27) other songs for which they can't produce the files."

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Re:Sounds like....

[jelton]

1. Perhaps you meant "The phrase 'believe in' can also mean 'have confidence in'."

2. I know the many meanings of "believe". And yet, my belief in the sheer stupidity of this usage continues. There are so many better ways to express a confidence (or lack thereof) than using "belief" in a tortured manner. Use them.