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RIAA Backs Down In Austin, Texas
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In November, 2004, several judges in the federal court in Austin, Texas, got together and ordered the RIAA to cease and desist from its practice of joining multiple 'John Does' in a single case. The RIAA blithely ignored the order, and continued the illegal practice for the next four years, but steering clear of Austin. In 2008, however, circumstances conspired to force the record companies back to that venue. In Arista v. Does 1-22, in Providence, Rhode Island, they were hoping to get the student identities from Rhode Island College. After the first round, however, they learned that the College was not the ISP; rather, the ISP was an Austin-based company, Apogee Telecom Inc., meaning the RIAA would have to serve its subpoena in Austin. The RIAA did just that, but Apogee — unlike so many other ISP's — did not turn over its subscribers' identities in response to the subpoena, instead filing objections. This meant the RIAA would have to go to court, to try to get the Court to overrule Apogee's objections. Instead, it opted to withdraw the subpoena and drop its case."
your wasting your time at slashdot. this is just a place where people who pirate stuff slap each other on the back and convince each other its just fine because the people losing out aren't them.
Sad isn't it?
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The meaning of object "A" does not depend upon the fact that object "B" is uniquely defined. Object "B" can be defined in such a way that object "B" will always include every object "A" and will also include different objects "B", "C", and "D." In the law, this concept is the concept of lesser included offenses.
Your ipse dixit: "Such definitions are relevant and important and have real moral consequences." Without explaining the relevance, importance, or moral consequence of your semantic distinctions, your semantic distinctions are meaningless.
You argue like a poorly trained hyper-didactic elementary school teacher.
When somebody says that they were robbed when they were in fact burglarized or stolen from, I'm not going to jump their shit over meaningless semantics.
Perhaps, you need to post in more than one-liners to be well understood?
Also, try to use punctuation...
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