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RIAA Campaign Against Students Hits Stormier Seas
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "It's been astutely observed that the RIAA's "ex parte" campaign against "John Doe" college students seems to have run into much stormier waters than its campaign against regular folks. Discovery motions were thrown out by the judges in cases involving the University of New Mexico and the College of William and Mary, and motions to quash have been made by students at Boston University, Oklahoma State University, and the University of South Florida. The RIAA might find it particularly troubling that the students are coming in armed with substantial expert witness declarations attacking the entire underpinning of the RIAA's case, that the students are finding each other and banding together, and that the Chairman of Boston University's Computer Science Department went to bat — as an expert witness — for the BU students."
...to thank all you "information wants to be free" asshats when the shit hits the fan and anonymity on the internet is eliminated. I don't know what part about unauthorized distribution of intellectual property you find so difficult to comprehend. And don't come back to me with bullshit arguments about the length of copyright, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know as well as I do that most of the files on P2P networks are well within even the original 14 year protection terms. You've already killed network TV. I'd love to kick a couple of you asshats right in the nuts for those stupid ads that take up the lower third of the screen I now have to deal with because you wanted to illegally distribute TV shows on P2P networks sans ads (there's a pretty thick fucking line between time-shifting for personal use and unauthorized distribution). Please, for the love of god, quit now before anonymity is on the internet is dead.
You must have been a humanities student!