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Prof. Johan Pouwelse To Take On RIAA Expert
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Marie Lindor has retained an expert witness of her own to fight the RIAA, and to debunk the testimony and reports of the RIAA's 'expert' Dr. Doug Jacobson, whose reliability has been challenged by Ms. Lindor in her Brooklyn federal court case, UMG v. Lindor. Ms. Lindor's expert is none other than Prof. Johan Pouwelse, Chairman of the Parallel and Distributed Systems Group of Delft University of Technology. It was Prof. Pouwelse's scathing analysis of the RIAA's MediaSentry 'investigations' (PDF) in a case in the Netherlands that caused the courts in that country to direct the ISPs there not to turn over their subscribers' information (PDF), thus nipping in the bud the RIAA's intended litigation juggernaut in that country."
has it ever occured to you to obey the fucking law and stop stealing stuff? you will be amazed how non-evil the DMCA seems then.
NewYorkCountryLawyer has huge balls for fighting them face to face, and as average geeks, we should thank him for his work.
Oh fucks, Superman became a lawyer....
No, whoever is fighting in such litigation is doing it because of the money. That is what lawyers do. Today you see your lawyer fighting for the kid whose lolly was robbed and tomorrow you see him fighting for the mobster who stole the kids lolly, It i$ ju$t a mathr of intr$t.
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
no, its the organisation thar represents people who make creative works vs the thieving warez kiddies who think the fucking world owes them a living.
See, thats just about as one-sided a representation as your bullshit about the 'mafiaaa' was. take off the blinkers kiddo, taking copyrighted material without payment *is* theft, however you want to try and weasel out of it.
...do not seem to be any better than Prof. Jacobson's. He is a fresh PhD (thesis topic is on low-power computer architecture), and has only recently looked at P2P issues. What are his qualifications to "debunk" Jacobson's testimony?
Is he a professional engineer? Does he know the definition of inculpate?