RIAA College Litigations Getting A Bumpy Ride

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's juggernaut against colleges, started in February of this year, seems to be having a bumpier and bumpier ride. The normal game is to call for a subpoena, to get the name and address of the students or staff who might have used a certain IP address. The normal game seems to be getting disrupted here and there. A Virginia judge threw the RIAA's motion out the window, saying that it was not entitled to such discovery, in a case against students at the College of William & Mary. A New Mexico judge denied the application on the ground that there was no reason for it to be so secretive, in a case involving University of New Mexico students. He ultimately required the RIAA to serve a full set of all of the underlying papers, for each 'John Doe' named, and to give the students 40 days in which to review the papers with counsel, and make a motion to quash if they chose to do so. In a stunning development, the Attorney General of the State of Oregon made a motion to quash the RIAA's subpoena on behalf of the University of Oregon, on grounds which are fully applicable to every case the RIAA has brought to date: the lack of scientific validity to the RIAA's "identification" evidence. The motion is pending as of this writing. Students have themselves made motions to vacate the RIAA's ex parte orders and/or quash subpoenas in over half a dozen cases. Much combat remains, but the RIAA's campaign is no longer a hot knife cutting through butter on the nation's campuses."

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I'm Sorry America

[Dog Chapman]

I don't care if she's a Mexican, a whore or whatever. It's not because she's black, it's because we use the word Apple-Fag sometimes here. I'm not gonna take a chance ever in life of losing everything I've worked for for 30 years because some fucking Apple-Fag heard us say Apple-Fag and turned us in to the Enquirer magazine. Our career is over! I'm not taking that chance at all! Never in life! Never! Never! If Lyssa was dating an Apple-Fag, we would all say 'fuck you!' And you know that. If Lyssa brought a UNIX guy home yada yada... it's not that they're filty faggot geeks, it's none of that. It's that we use the word Apple-Fag. We don't mean you fucking scum Apple-Fag without a soul. We don't mean that shit. But America would think we mean that. And we're not taking a chance on losing everything we got over a hilarious slur because our son goes with a girl like that. I can't do that Tucker. You can't expect Gary, Bonnie, Cecily, all them young kids to [garbled] because 'I'm in love with my new iPhone' - fuck that! So, I'll help you get another job but you can not work here unless you break up with her and she's out of your life. I can't handle that shit. I got Ballmer in the parking lot trying to record us. I got that girl saying she's gonna wear a recorder...

Argggg

[future assassin]

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