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RIAA Directed To Pay $68K In Attorneys Fees
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In Capitol v. Foster, in Oklahoma, the RIAA has been directed to pay the defendant $68,685.23 in attorneys fees. This is the first instance of which I am aware of the RIAA being ordered to pay the defendant attorneys fees. The judge in this case has criticized the RIAA's lawyers' motives as 'questionable,' and their legal theories as 'marginal' (PDF). Although the judge had previously ordered the RIAA to turn over its own attorneys billing records, today's decision (PDF) made no mention of the amount that the RIAA had spent on its own lawyers."
Sounds like the law is ruled by offer and demand ... Although I should have expected this from the United States of America*, I'm really surprised of the contradiction between the way you** handle the law on one side and the way you** (are supposed to) write them on the other side. I think that when laws are written, it's in order to achieve something specific either by coercion or by attraction***. The market seems the allow the richest to bend the rules, even if they end up to be in contradiction with what the law was attempting to do in the first place. Instead of judging, it just sounds like bargaining. This is just revolting (for me). Though I don't have any idea of how you could extract the business from the court ... Perhaps this is what some people call "moral corruption", although I've never been able to put a good definition on that expression.
*: ok that sounds length. how should I spell "U.S." in order that it sounds like "T.H.E.M." ?**: well, it's not personal, it's more about the about the "American way of handling the law"
***: as one might figure out, this is YAUT****
****: Yet Another Unproven Theory
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