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Motley Fool Says RIAA Hitting a Brick Wall
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The Motley Fool business site says that the RIAA's litigation campaign is in the end game. Monday it reported that 'the music industry's lawsuit crusade against defenseless college students and housewives appears to have hit the skids,' predicting that the RIAA's tactics are 'all about to change.' Today the Fool confirms that 'the change is happening in Internet time, which is somewhere between "instantly" and "yesterday,"' noting that the RIAA's abandonment of its 'making available' theory shows that the end is near. And this is before the RIAA faces its first jury trial, set to begin Oct. 2 in Duluth."
Duluth in the house!!!
If an officer ever threatens to taze you, say you have a pacemaker.
Its 1itu/0s where itu is an internet time unit, and s is SI seconds.
Go ahead, convert that for me will ya?
...to enhance that brick wall? I'm thinking maybe some sharp aluminum spikes on the face of it, and possibly a webcam or two so we can watch the violence via YouTube.
So is the 2 October jury trial going to be a one-time thing, or will it set some sort of precedent? I mean, once one case goes to jury trial, do all subsequent cases also have to be heard by a jury?
After all, all these cases are pretty much identical:
RIAA: ZOMG PIRACY! YOU GETTIN' SUED, FOO!
Plaintiff: Don't sue! Here's some money to make you go away.
RIAA: Okay.
(or)
RIAA: ZOMG PIRACY! YOU GETTIN' SUED, FOO!
Plaintiff: What? Fsck that! We're going to court!
Judge: Court is now in session.
RIAA: We're going to drop the case, because our scare tactics have no legal merit.
seconds / 12 parsecs = internet time that's how fast the Millennium Falcon is!
Well that's a tricky question.
Internet time fluctuates with the clogging of the tubes, which we all know the internet is made of, and how many libraries of congress worth of emo-ranting the so-called "blogosphere" is putting out per forthnight.
So basically you divide your local time by zero and OH SHI-
I would love to sit in the courtroom during jury selection on these cases. "Ladies and gentlemen, please raise your hands if you have ever illegally downloaded an mp3." could keep the court busy for months trying to find enough jurors to go forward.
Even the Millennium Falcon couldn't catch up with that joke as it flew over your head.
I read the internet for the articles.
Dude, c'mon. They taught the 12 Parsecs mistake* in geek101^.
Your overconfidence is your weakness.
The ability to speak doesn't make you intelligent.
If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
Good to see AC's going around trying to revoke geek cards.
* (or was it. Was it a reference of the mFalcon being able to go so fast through those portions of space that it could take the short way past a bunch of black holes, not the long way round. - personally I think it was a mistake.)
^ if only they taught me grammar spelling and punctuation.