ABA Judges Get an Earful About RIAA Litigations

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.

Comments

Re:Of all 3 branches

[iminplaya]

I am speaking of immutable rights guranteed definitively by the Bill of Rights.

Void where prohibited by law. That guarantee expired 211 years ago. The old dog has finally been muzzled and taken out back and shot. And we just turned away.

Re:All that needs to be said

[Anonymous Coward]

You are a hero.

Let us not be too quick to deify him. It appears that he's getting paid for it. Who can tell - especially with lawyers - where their true loyalties lie?
The real hero is the guy who pays him to do this.

Re:Thank you for your efforts.

[Anonymous Coward]

It's too bad that Communists like you don't seem to understand that what you are working for is no different than putting a can on the counter at a store ans "asking" people to pay as the leave with your products.

Re:Thank you for your efforts.

[Anonymous Coward]

Sure have. And shoplifters go to jail too, just like music thieves should. As it is, I'm satisfied that the thieves get fined enough to make them sit up and take notice and most importantly, make OTHER people sit up and take notice.

Never want to see RIAA again? Then don't steal the dream - don't steal the music. Buy your "tunes" at a reputable record store instead of just stealing them off the Internet.

What's this I shit?

[Buscape]

I? Who the fuck are you?

Re:Well done

[DNS-and-BIND]

It ain't happening, is it? Thus, we draw the conclusion that their behavior is good, or at least acceptable. What conclusions would a reasonable man arrive at? The RIAA attorneys are succeeding at their client's objectives, as best as they can, given the slender legitimate resources available to them. One really has to admire them, evil though they may be.