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ABA Judges Get an Earful About RIAA Litigations

Posted by kdawson on from the preaching-to-someone-other-than-the-choir dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "I was afforded the opportunity to write for a slightly different audience — the judges who belong to the Judicial Division of the American Bar Association. I was invited by the The Judges Journal, their quarterly publication, to do a piece on the RIAA litigations for the ABA's Summer 2008 'Equal Access to Justice' issue. What I came up with was 'Large Recording Companies vs. The Defenseless: Some Common Sense Solutions to the Challenges of the RIAA Litigations,' in which I describe the unfairness of these cases and make 15 suggestions as to how the courts could level the playing field. I'm hoping the judges mod my article '+5 Insightful,' but I'd settle for '+3 Informative.' Here is the actual article (PDF). (If anyone out there can send me a decent HTML version of it, I'll run that one up the flagpole as well.)" Wired is helping to spread the word on Ray's article.

5 of 349 comments (clear)

  1. Re:you're doing it wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's a 12 year old girl doing in center field?

  2. Re:Hey NewYorkCountryLawyer by NewYorkCountryLawyer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Saw your pic. I thought you were younger!

    I used to be much younger. But that was quite a while ago.

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    Ray Beckerman +5 Insightful
  3. Re:Thank you for your efforts. by NewYorkCountryLawyer · · Score: 5, Funny

    music thieves and the large Internet criminal element do thank you, NewYorkCountryLawyer

    Is that you, MediaSentry? I didn't know the internet criminal element were posting in this thread.

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    Ray Beckerman +5 Insightful
  4. Never mind that AC... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ladies and gentlemen, I have uncovered a plot! A fiendish plot that undermines the very foundations of Slashdot itself!

    Notice how Ray Beckerman goes out and defends people against the RIAA, to win the hearts and minds of Slashdotters. Then he uses that goodwill to get stories published from the firehose, onto the front page. What happens next is the really fiendish bit: he posts a series of comments on the article, whereupon the moderators invariably mod them up to +5.

    Can't you see what he's doing? It all fits: Ray Beckerman is a karma whore! This is a bigger conspiracy than twitter and his sock puppets!

  5. Re:All that needs to be said by NewYorkCountryLawyer · · Score: 5, Funny

    He gets paid to submit articles to Slashdot?

    Don't I wish.

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    Ray Beckerman +5 Insightful