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RIAA Wants Its $222,000 Verdict Back

Posted by samzenpus on from the be-careful-what-you-wish-for dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA, unhappy with the Court's decision setting aside its $222,000 jury verdict over $23.76 worth of song files, and throwing out the legal theory on which it was based, has made a motion for permission to file an appeal from the Judge's order, in Capitol v. Thomas. Normally, only final judgments are appealable, and appeals are not permissible in federal court from 'interlocutory' orders of that nature."

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  1. Re:fp by D'Sphitz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    naw it's not even creative, it's a ripoff: http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=222961&mc=6&forum_id=2#3387236

  2. Pop culture reference: by alisson · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I AM ABOVE THE LAW!

  3. Re:Let the punishment fit the crime. by BlueStrat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I predict we'll be seeing plenty of horribly unjust judgments become a matter of course as the war on those trying to operate outside the RIAA/MPAA cartels' control and without paying them picks up speed.

    There, fixed that for you. :)

    Cheers!

    Strat

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  4. Re:It's not about the money by daveime · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Offtopic I know, but what kind of a dick embeds a pdf in a fixed width frame on a web page ?

    Even at 1280 resolution, it's illegible at the 65% magnification used to fit the iframe, and when you adjust the magnification to 100%, then of course you have to scroll vertically because it's in the iframe.

    Can't one of these genetic researchers detect the "sucks at HTML gene", so we can remove these idiots from the gen pool once and for all ?

  5. Re:How many Courics? by Jesus_666 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah. Where is the accurate measurement of the consistentcy and the in-depth discussion of saltiness vs. umami? The poster mentioned a temperature differential between the outer and inner layers without ever describing the exact difference. There's no analysis of changes in the chemical composition over time - one'd assume that the time spent in the fridge would have changed the matter in some way. Not even a comparison to other well-known persons' bequeathments to be used as a reference point. The entire writeup is almost completely devoid of hard scientific data.

    I'm sorry, but this publication has no chance of ever passing peer review.

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