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Judge Orders RIAA to Show Cause in DC Case

Posted by Zonk on from the and-all-the-other-little-cases-as-well dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's 'bumpy ride' in its 'ex parte' litigation campaign against college students just got a whole lot bumpier. After reading the motion to quash filed by a George Washington University student, the Judge took it upon herself to issue an order to show cause. The order now requires the plaintiffs to show cause, no later than November 29th, why the ex parte order she'd signed at the RIAA's request should not be vacated. She's also requested information showing why her ruling should not be applicable not only to John Doe #3, but to all the other John Does as well. p2pnet called this a 'potentially huge setback' for the recording companies."

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  1. mood down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Creek, saBysmal

  2. Re:The bigger picture, Mr. Beckerman? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You are asking these questions on Slashdot? Are you new here? A good portion of people here feel that regardless of the law, they are entitled to give and get music for free because CD's are over priced...

    Yes, they say they would pay a reasonable price for music, but they feel that since that reasonable price isn't part of the offer from the record company, they are just entitled to take the music. Oh but wait, Radiohead gave them even more freedome than what they wanted... But of course, going to the Radiohead Web site and giving them a few cents... or even nothing... was too inconvenient, so it was just better to continue to illegally take the music via p2p.

    But how can music that could be gotten legitimately be illegal to distribute... Of course, it violates the copyright on the music to distribute it outside what the owner allows... Oh but a good portion of Slashdot users don't believe in copyrights... How can you copyright numbers, letters, words, sounds, bits, bytes, and math? How can anybody charge for it? Of course, a large portion of Slashdot users have no problem protecting, and charging their employers for, those same items that they feel should not be copyrightable by others...

    Your post is good and your points are valid, you are just posing them to an audience that is so self-righteous that they would cut-off their nose in spite of their face, lol.