RIAA's Attack On NewYorkCountryLawyer Fails

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "p2pnet.net reports that the RIAA has egg on its face. When the Electronic Frontier Foundation requested permission to file an amicus curiae brief on behalf of Boston University students challenging the RIAA's ex parte discovery order, the RIAA lawyers attacked the blog 'Recording Industry vs. The People' for its criticism of the RIAA as seeking to 'abuse the American judicial system, distort copyright law, and frighten ordinary working people and their children' and then falsely claimed that the blog's author is an EFF attorney — this despite the fact that they know that the blog's author (known on Slashdot as NewYorkCountryLawyer) is a partner in a New York law firm and not an EFF attorney. Judge Gertner apparently wasn't impressed, and granted the EFF's motion, rejecting the RIAA's objections, since she felt amici curiae might 'shed light' on the 'copyright law' and 'computer technology' issues before her."

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Re:NewYorkCountryLawyer

[sm62704]

my pop-culture saturated brain

So how did you wind up on a site with "News For Nerds" as its purpose? I was going to open Deal Reportedly Reached In Writers' Strike to ask slashdot WTF the witesr's strike has to do with me, an American nerd who watches very little TV, let alone all the non US slashdotters.

Thank you for answering that for me and saving me the trouble of opening it.

Could we maybe do some kind of "nerd test" and if you fail it, you get redirected to DIGG instead?

Hmm, maybe I'll do one as a slashdot journal. That is, if I don't get my nerd license suspended again (linked journal is from last year, you probably already saw it).

Oh yeah, while I'm here I want to join you and all my other fellow slashdotters in once again thanking NYCL for his efforts.

-mcgrew
How do I mod thee? Let me count the ways. -1 offtopic, -2 troll, -3 flamebait...

Re:NewYorkCountryLawyer

[Phoenix666]

Only if you're a hermaphrodite. Everyone one knows men are from Omicron Persei 7, and women are from Omicron Persei 9. And Lrrr is definitely from Omicron Persei 7.

Re:NewYorkCountryLawyer

[truthsearch]

Leela: They're going to destroy the entire Earth if they don't see some stupid TV show about some bimbo lawyer?
Fry: It's crazy! How could they even know about a show from a thousand years ago?
Farnsworth: Well, Omicron Persei 8 is about a thousand light years away. So the electro-magnetic waves would just recently have gotten there. You see-
Fry: Magic. Got it.

Re:NewYorkCountryLawyer

[Steeltalon]

Well, I don't know about hippies but I wouldn't be surprised by Coke "Ugh... I think that lawyer snorted something through his human horn" followed by: "Look at my hands. They're huge and they can touch anything except each other. Woah!" Or, more likely, something resembling a scene from terminator...

Re:Euphemisms

[pandrijeczko]

YOU know that and I know that but as far as our brothers across the pond know, we're all still dressing as chimney sweeps and saying "Gor blimey, Mary Poppins" every five minutes.

And that of course means that they're more than willing to spend vast wads of their hard-earned dollars flying over to London and getting ripped-off by Cockney-sounding Dick Van Dyke wannabes which reduces our balance of trade deficit, thus keeping the interest down meaning the exchange rate stays up so it's easier for us to buy villas in Florida, go to Disney World and all talk and dress like chimney sweeps with really bad teeth.

Thus the myth is maintained, the circle is complete and at this rate, within about 25 years, we'll all be able to buy the state of Maine for about £1.50.

And when we're all living over there, then we'll give them a right good tupping... "Colony, my arse!"