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RIAA's SafeNet Caught In a Lie
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "For the past 2 years, the RIAA and its attack dog SafeNet (formerly known as MediaSentry) have been trying to avoid disclosure in UMG v. Lindor by telling the judge that MediaSentry is NOT an expert, that it does not use any technical expertise to get the 'evidence', and that it does only 'what any other Kazaa user does'. We have just discovered that in administrative proceedings in Michigan, attacking it for engaging in the business of investigation without a license, MediaSentry has taken the exact opposite position, comparing itself to chemical engineers, surveyors, physicians, geologists, and other expert witnesses who rely on their technical expertise. Today we went public with some of the contradictions. Now let's hope Michigan's Department of Labor and Economic Growth finds out about it."
Absolutely SHOCKED that the RIAA was bending the truth in order to justify its actions.
Laugh until you cry?
the one good thing about the US government is that it moves slowly enough that everythng that is caught in outright lies eventually gets ground under. It just takes a very painful decade to do so.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
You rock.
Dear RIAA:
Haha. Self-pwnt.
No, it isn't lying.
It's just bending the truth all the way around.
Did Media Sentry, I'm sorry, SafeNet DDoS him, too?
Anybody want my mod points?
They gained experience from their previous ordeal, and can now claim to be "experts".
Moebius strip of truth!
FGD 135
At a later trial when they once again need to be laymen, not experts, I assume they will claim to have respecced since this trial.
... still waiting for this free-as-in-beer free beer I keep hearing about.
NewYorkCountryLawyer: the anti-Jack Thompson
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
THe Moebius strip of truth only has one side. This is more like the Klein bottle of truth: everything fits inside, all at the same time.
Sounds to me more like lying, what with the two stances being exact opposites.
Don't be silly, when the lawyers are done fighting we'll find out it's all a big misunderstanding. Why, I'm sure a few years from now we'll all laugh about it.
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
Michigan has an economy? I thought they ran everybody off?
They didn't run, they drove off in impressively made foreign cars.
I wonder if the statements from Michigan can be sent to Lindor's legal team?
I am "Lindor's legal team".
Ray Beckerman +5 Insightful
I thought lawyers made contradictory arguments all the time.
Here's a joke/story I heard years ago. This lawyer is in a courtroom, defending a client. The plaintiff claims the defendant borrowed a new pot and returned it in broken condition. The lawyer makes his opening statement: "There are three facts that prove my client is innocent. First, he never borrowed that pot. Second, it was already broken when he borrowed it. Third, when he returned it, it was in perfect condition."
steveha
lf(1): it's like ls(1) but sorts filenames by extension, tersely
In Soviet Russia, "Lindor's legal team" is you!
No good deed goes unpunished. - Avon, Blake's 7
And we all know that the cake is a lie.
They weren't lying, they were just saying a lot of things they wish were true or thought were true. Like many bloggers do as well. :)
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Is this like the 3rd phase of matter -- all gas?
Every mans' island needs an ocean; choose your ocean carefully.
Why they oughta be horsewhipped...I mean, elected to congress.
What?
You can eat your cake and still have it, it just takes a little patience. Although the cake will look different, and it'll smell bad.
Give a man fire, and you warm him for the night. Set a man on fire, and you warm him for the rest of his life.
It's not over yet. RIAA is still alive...
Or at least "undead".
Hey! Here on Slashdot, every day is Be Pedantic Day!
But, like the RIAA's cases, it doesn't hold water.
They can, but only until someone looks inside the court and collapses the waveform.
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Maybe we should put the RIAA in a box and launch it at the sun.
Why do you want to pollute a perfectly good star? It's not as if we are in a binary system and thus have a "backup".
They want to have their cake and eat mine, too.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest