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RIAA Mischaracterizes Letter Received From AOL
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In Elektra v. Schwartz, an RIAA case against a Queens woman with Multiple Sclerosis who indicates that she had never even heard of file sharing until the RIAA came knocking on her door, the judge held that Ms. Schwartz's summary judgment request for dismissal was premature because the RIAA said it had a letter from AOL 'confirm[ing] that defendant owned an internet access account through which copyrighted sound recordings were downloaded and distributed.' When her lawyers got a copy of the actual AOL letter they saw that it had no such statement in it, and asked the judge to reconsider."
Ms. Schwartz needs a stern talking to.
This wouldn't be slashdot without the MS-bashing, would it? :-)
If you believe everything you read, you'd better not read. - Japanese proverb
Don't you see what the submitter is trying to say? She has a dreadful disease, therefore she can't possibly be guilty! Get with the program, dude!
Drill baby drill - on Mars
It's not called 'lying' ... it's called 'pretexting' ... corporations don't lie - they 'pretext'.
You know you're screwed up if you've ever used xor in a casual sentence without thinking about it as I have, as in "would you like cake exclusive or pie?".
"172.200.205.238" on "2005-11-25" at "04:03:44 EST" is:
happy to see that someone else actually appreciates the Joni Mitchell collection they've complied
"172.143.208.80" on "2005-11-26" at "01:48:14 EST" is:
wondering if MSgurl2459 is really as edgey as her taste in 3-6 Mafia seems to be. Wonders if MS stands for Microsoft (ooh a cute nerd chick!)
My spouse is chronically mis-construing what I say since I say what I mean in boolian logic.
if this not that
this and that
she now understands.
neuron's start popping when I go or, xor, xnor, and to some extent nand.
The problem is that in "plain 'ol english" the word or is often interpreted as xor. Really a parser error. Anyone got the wife.parser.1.1b patch?
-nB
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(And it's not like this argument is my idea, I've read it in dozens of other slashdots posts about this subject, and agree.)
Attribution is no excuse.
The fact is, you did steal that argument.
Think of all the karma-starved slashdot posters - how are slashdot posters going to feed their families if they can't be compensated with the karma they deserve for the work they do?
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
I believe that Eddie Izzard asked it best, "Cake or Death"?
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
>"American Online"
That is correct - they only have one customer left now.
I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil
Are you kidding? We'll correct you even if you're right!
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain