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RIAA's 'Misspeaking' May Have Affected Verdict
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "David Kravetz of Wired.com covered last year's Capitol v. Thomas trial gavel-to-gavel. It's worth noting, then, his article saying that the RIAA's recent statement — that Sony's top litigation lawyer 'misspoke' during the trial. She said that making a copy from one's own cd is 'stealing', which (in his words) may have caused a major miscarriage of justice. Wired further points out that later on in the trial, during the RIAA's examination of Ms. Thomas, 'On the hard drive she [turned] over were thousands of songs Thomas said she ripped from her CDs. The RIAA's Gabriel suggested to jurors that copying one's purchased music was a violation of the Copyright Act. Gabriel, for example, asked Thomas whether she had ever burned CDs, either for herself, or to give away to friends.' Gabriel, the RIAA's lead attorney, apparently misspoke too — prejudicing jurors along the way."
Please, your Honor, don't take what I actually said to heart. What I really meant to say was a complete reversal of the actual meaning of what some may interpret to be a broadly misunderstood fabrication of opinions based on statistical evidence to the contrary.
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It's Miss Saigon , not Miss Peking.
Also, the RIAA shouldn't take credit for the work of Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, and Richard Maltby, Jr.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
First, its duels [...]. Secondly, [...].
First, it's "it's." Second, if it's "first, ..." it's "second, ...."
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
She may have been guilty, but it was still a tremendous miscarriage of justice. I have no idea what "cruel and unusual" is supposed to mean if $222k for 24 songs isn't cruel.
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