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Juror From RIAA Trial Speaks

Posted by kdawson on from the tell-us-what-you-really-think dept.

Damon Tog notes a Wired blog posting featuring quotes from a juror who took part in the recent RIAA trial. Some excerpts: "She should have settled out of court for a few thousand dollars... Spoofing? We're thinking, "Oh my God, you got to be kidding."... She lied. There was no defense. Her defense sucked... I think she thought a jury from Duluth would be naive. We're not that stupid up here. I don't know what the f**k she was thinking, to tell you the truth."

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  1. Re:So what? by mingot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Screw that. Let's go in on that ticket so he can go not vote somewhere else.

  2. Re:So what? by DavidShor · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I hate this condescending answer. The truth is that your vote is completely irrelevant to the outcome of an election. Even in "close" elections, the margins are still in the hundreds range. Even if you had voted, nothing would have changed.

    People who vote do not do so out of social change; we do it as social norm to feel better, like flushing in public bathrooms. Voting has a cost, you have to drive to a voting station and wait in line. Because of this, if the activity your doing instead gives you more joy then voting, it's entirely rational for you to abstain from voting(And don't look down on this preference, you are the one who likes standing in line to drop a slip of paper into a box).

    But even if you decide to vote, chances are, your cause will still lose. Your only option left is to campaign for this cause through social activism. The problem with this is that you are not the only one with this point of view. Furthermore, these others have been campaigning before you, and some of them are much more articulate and convincing then you are. If the public's mind was going to be changed, it would already have been done.

    Now you can vote in hopes that you will tip over the election(The probability is vanishingly small, under generous assumptions about vote distribution, it is still about 1/population) and invest massive amounts of time and effort into attempting to shape an apathetic public with little hope of success.

    Don't tell me I'm "part of the problem", even if I decide to dump massive amounts of resources into a pit of fire, that does nothing at all to actually change how everyone else will act. "The problem" is that public choice has serious, fundamental flaws, and should be avoided when at all possible.

    So fuck the ballot box, vote with your feet.

  3. Re:That quote, that quote! by philonoist · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Silly me! Thinking that reading /. was actually informational when it was goofing off. Thanks for straightening me out.

    I was not asking for censorship; just some common sense and respect for corporate protocols.

    I'm a tech teacher who works with kids, and I tried to make my workplace generic.