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Lessig, Zittrain, Barlow To Square Off Against RIAA
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's case in Boston against a 24-year-old grad student, SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, in which Prof. Charles Nesson of Harvard Law School, along with members of his CyberLaw class, are representing the defendant, may shape up as a showdown between the Electronic Frontier and Big Music. The defendant's witness list includes names such as those of Prof. Lawrence Lessig (Author of 'Free Culture'), John Perry Barlow (former songwriter of The Grateful Dead and cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation), Prof. Johan Pouwelse (Scientific Director of P2P-Next), Prof. Jonathan Zittrain (Author of 'The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It'), Professors Wendy Seltzer, Terry Fisher, and John Palfrey, and others. The RIAA requested, and was granted, an adjournment of the trial, from its previously scheduled December 1st date, to March 30, 2009. (The RIAA lawyers have been asking for adjournments a lot lately, asking for an adjournment in UMG v. Lindor the other day because they were so busy preparing for the Tenenbaum December 1st trial ... I guess when you're running on hot air, you sometimes run out of steam)."
This is a community where people are pretty open about using Bittorrent to download films instead of buying or renting the DVD or going to the cinema. It's a community where people have shared secrets about the best file-sharing networks for music swapping. It does seem like a good portion of the Slashdot community doesn't think there should be restrictions on the sharing of media. If there is some conflict with Stallman's ideas, they haven't noticed it yet.
oh grow up. You advocate vandalising the cars of RIAA employees? Or do you condemn it? I notice that you do not.
Please say you do, it will expose you for the rabid foaming fanatic we know you to be.
Don't try and assume everyone agrees with you. personally I consider you to be an ambulance chasing jerk.
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