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RIAA Campaign Against Students Hits Stormier Seas

Posted by Zonk on from the get-out-of-the-pool dept.

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."

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  1. Re:RIAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes: their collective cock, your arse. All you have to do is download a bunch of shitty chart songs from one of their fake servers and their lawyers will be round your gaffe, giving you a good seeing to, in no time.

  2. To testify what? by MBraynard · · Score: 0, Troll
    Chairman of Boston University's Computer Science Department went to bat -- as an expert witness -- for the BU students

    What does some limp-wrist academic testify to as an expert - 'Yes, students are ok to download copywritten work because I read on the slashdot that Information is Free and it is only taking money from evil labels not from artists. Why, your honor, do CDs cost 12.99 in stores when they cost only pennies to produce!'

    1. Re:To testify what? by MBraynard · · Score: -1, Troll
      I read the original story. His arguments are stupidly inane - IPs aren't unique to an individual, etc. - crap like that. Trying to dodge the law with gay technicalities when everyone KNOWS they were downloading Soul Plane and Mike and the Mechanics.

      Please take your threatened mod point and shove it. Thaaah-yanks.

  3. Re:in defense of the RIAA: by trewornan · · Score: -1, Troll

    Those who can do, those who can't teach.

  4. Re:in defense of the RIAA: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "you people think you have reason, science, fairness, morality, justice, and freedom on your side

    ha!

    we have LAWYERS"

    Yes, students using lawyers to avoid fairness, morality, etc. /.ers don't care that the students are the ones who are the thieves. They think free music == freedom.