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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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  1. creators disempowerment of corepiratenazifelons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    moving along at the speed of right (which sometimes can appear to be a little slow). let yOUR conscience be yOUR guide. you can be more helpful than you might have imagined. there are still some choices. if they do not suit you, consider the likely results of continuing to follow the corepirate nazi hypenosys story LIEn, whereas anything of relevance is replaced almost instantly with pr ?firm? scriptdead mindphuking propaganda or 'celebrity' trivia 'foam'. meanwhile; don't forget to get a little more oxygen on yOUR brain, & look up in the sky from time to time, starting early in the day. there's lots going on up there.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071229/ap_on_sc/ye_climate_records;_ylt=A0WTcVgednZHP2gB9wms0NUE
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080108/ts_alt_afp/ushealthfrancemortality;_ylt=A9G_RngbRIVHsYAAfCas0NUE
    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/opinion/31mon1.html?em&ex=1199336400&en=c4b5414371631707&ei=5087%0A

    is it time to get real yet? A LOT of energy is being squandered in attempts to keep US in the dark. in the end (give or take a few 1000 years), the creators will prevail (world without end, etc...), as it has always been. the process of gaining yOUR release from the current hostage situation may not be what you might think it is. butt of course, most of US don't know, or care what a precarious/fatal situation we're in. for example; the insidious attempts by the felonious corepirate nazi execrable to block the suns' light, interfering with a requirement (sunlight) for us to stay healthy/alive. it's likely not good for yOUR health/memories 'else they'd be bragging about it? we're intending for the whoreabully deceptive (they'll do ANYTHING for a bit more monIE/power) felons to give up/fail even further, in attempting to control the 'weather', as well as a # of other things/events.

    http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=video+cloud+spraying

    dictator style micro management has never worked (for very long). it's an illness. tie that with life0cidal aggression & softwar gangster style bullying, & what do we have? a greed/fear/ego based recipe for disaster. meanwhile, you can help to stop the bleeding (loss of life & limb);

    http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/28/vermont.banning.bush.ap/index.html

    the bleeding must be stopped before any healing can begin. jailing a couple of corepirate nazi hired goons would send a clear message to the rest of the world from US. any truthful look at the 'scorecard' would reveal that we are a society in decline/deep doo-doo, despite all of the scriptdead pr ?firm? generated drum beating & flag waving propaganda that we are constantly bombarded with. is it time to get real yet? please consider carefully ALL of yOUR other 'options'. the creators will prevail. as it has always been.

    corepirate nazi execrable costs outweigh benefits
    (Score:-)mynuts won, the king is a fink)
    by ourselves on everyday 24/7

    as there are no benefits, just more&more death/debt & disruption. fortunately there's an 'army' of light bringers, coming yOUR way. the little ones/innocents must/will be protected. after the big flash, ALL of yOUR imaginary 'borders' may blur a bit? for each of the creators' innocents harmed in any way, there is a debt that must/will be repaid by you/us, as the perpetrators/minions of unprecedented evile, will not be available. 'vote' with (what's left in) yOUR wallet, & by your behaviors. help bring an end to unprecedented evile's manifestation through yOUR owne

  2. Re:NewYorkCountryLawyer by sm62704 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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...

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  3. Re:NewYorkCountryLawyer by Phoenix666 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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  4. Re:NewYorkCountryLawyer by truthsearch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

  5. Re:NewYorkCountryLawyer by Steeltalon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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...

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  6. Re:Euphemisms by pandrijeczko · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    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!"

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