Entire Transcript of RIAA's Only Trial Now Online

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The entire transcript of the RIAA's 'perfect storm,' its first and only trial, which resulted in a $222,000 verdict in a case involving 24 MP3's having a retail value of $23.76, is now available online. After over a year of trying, we have finally obtained the transcript of the Duluth, Minnesota, jury trial which took place October 2, 2007, to October 4, 2007, in Capitol Records v. Thomas. Its 643 pages represent a treasure trove for (a) lawyers representing defendants in other RIAA cases, (b) technologists anxious to see how a MediaSentry investigator and the RIAA's expert witness combined to convince the jurors that the RIAA had proved its case, and (c) anybody interested in finding out about such things as the early-morning October 4th argument in which the RIAA lawyer convinced the judge to make the mistake which forced him to eventually vacate the jury's verdict, and the testimony of SONY BMG's Jennifer Pariser in which she 'misspoke' according to the RIAA's Cary Sherman when she testified under oath that making a copy from one's CD to one's computer is 'stealing.' The transcript was a gift from the 'Joel Fights Back Against RIAA' team defending SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, in Boston, Massachusetts. I have the transcript in 3 segments: October 2nd (278 pages(PDF), October 3rd (263 pages)(PDF), and October 4th (100 pages)(PDF)."

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Re:This just says it all:

[TheoMurpse]

Lots of companies incorporate in Delaware because their laws are sweet

Yeah, thank God our new VP is from there

Biden is a federal senator. He has absolutely nothing to do with state corporate law.

So Biden's support for the bankruptcy bill which hurts consumers has nothing to do with the credit card companies who lobbied for it and just happen to be incorporated in Delaware?

As you can see, Biden was irrelevant to the original discussion (about DE state corporation laws). We were talking solely about why companies incorporate in DE until Biden, who was OT, got brought up.

Sure, Biden supporting the bankruptcy bill from a couple years ago really sucked. But I'm just upset because we were talking about state law, someone erroneously brought up a federale, and now I'm the one being told I'm wrong!