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RIAA Litigation May Be Unconstitutional
dtjohnson writes "A Harvard law school professor has submitted arguments on behalf of
Joel Tenenbaum in RIAA v. Tenenbaum in which Professor Charles
Nesson claims that the underlying law that the RIAA uses is actually a
criminal, rather than civil, statute and is therefore
unconstitutional. According to this article, 'Nesson
charges that the federal law is essentially a criminal statute
in that it seeks to punish violators with minimum statutory penalties
far in excess of actual damages. The market value of a song is 99 cents
on iTunes; of seven songs, $6.93. Yet the statutory damages are a
minimum of $750 per song, escalating to as much as $150,000 per song
for infringement "committed willfully."' If the law is a criminal
statute, Neeson then claims that it violates the 5th
and 8th
amendments and is therefore unconstitutional. Litigation will
take a while but this may be the end for RIAA litigation, at least
until they can persuade
Congress to pass a new law."
I don't recall anything in the Constitution protecting an individual's right to steal.
The world looks mighty good to me
'Cause Goatse Holes are all I see
Whatever it is I think I see
Becomes a Goatse Hole to me
Goatse Hole how I love your rectumy view
Goatse Hole I think I'm in love with you
Whatever it is I think I see
Becomes a Goatse Hole to me
(69 in the place to be
Hey yo, 'Ski! What we came to see?
Cotton candy, sweetie, go,
Let me see the Goatse Hole!)
and he also supports fucking white women and making white men suck on his dick as restitution for slavery. if you're white you are guilty in his eyes and he'll make sure you know if for his term in office.
2008. the first election won by playing the race card.
get use to it white boy. there will be no social programs for you.
Who says you need to amend it?
The bush administration has just trampled all over it, dont need it to be re written if its already been raped.