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Has RIAA Abandoned the 'Making Available' Defense?
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's standard complaint (pdf) was thrown out last month by a federal judge in California as speculation in Interscope v. Rodriguez. Interestingly, the RIAA's amended complaint (pdf), filed six days later, abandoned altogether the RIAA's 'making available' argument. (Whereby making files available at all for download is infringement.) It first formulated that defense against a dismissal motion in Elektra v. Barker. This raises a number of questions: Is the RIAA is going to stick to this new form of complaint in future cases? Will they get into a different kind of trouble for some of its their new allegations, such as the contention that the investigator "detected an individual" (contradicting the testimony of the RIAA's own expert witness)? And finally, what tack will defendants' lawyers take (this was one lawyer's suggestion)?"
It seems Slashdot has abandoned its "making available" defense for its articles, too!
All these stories about RIAA doing this and that.. why doesn't it just get branded a terrorist organisation that is it, and the US government can actually go after something that actually exists? The army can go and blow shit up and shoot not so innocent individuals, and everyone will be happy?