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RIAA Hearing Next Week Will Be Televised
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "One commentator labels it 'another fly in the RIAA's ointment.' In SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, the Boston, Massachusetts, RIAA case in which the defendant is represented by Harvard law professor Charles Nesson and a group of his students, the Judge has ruled that the hearing scheduled for January 22nd will be televised over the Internet. The hearing will relate to Mr. Tenenbaum's counterclaims against the record companies and against the RIAA. In her 11-page opinion (PDF), District Judge Nancy Gertner labeled as 'curious' the record companies' opposition to televising the proceedings, since their professed reason for bringing the cases is deterrence, 'a strategy [which] effectively relies on the publicity arising from this litigation'."
Justice on dowels.
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This outta be more entertaining then all seasons of Heroes combined!
I was wondering if someone could send me a recorded copy of the stream since I won't be able to watch it live.
...was not going to be televised? So much for common wisdom. :-P
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on bittorrent?
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Hey, you got your TVs in my Internets.
I once heard that vampires don't show up on camera. Now we'll know one way or another!
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"Your Honor, the defendant could have cloned cattle by extracting DNA from the stolen beef jerky..."
"Any rebroadcast, reproduction, or other use of the pictures and accounts of this hearing without the express written consent of the Recording Industry Association of America is prohibited and will be subjected to a fine of no less than $1 million per infraction."
Of course.. you can't copy a beef jerky.. the only way for you to be handing out beef jerky is to acquire it yourself - and I very highly doubt you'd be able to give it away for free with no money exhanged somewhere somehow.
If I could download beef jerky from the internet, I would definitely give it away to anyone who asked for some.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
What I'm wondering is why no one here has yet suggested that the person buys 7 pieces of beef jerky and then just eats them. I know that's what I'd do.
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The RIAA is the Enclave? My god it's all so clear now.
Would you kindly mod me +1 insightful?
If this is where the future recording artists are going to cum from I am happy
Remind me never to look at your browser history...
They've got a plan to sell it on DVD?
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. and this is why I should not be so quick to press submit after hitting preview . but hey, if i effectively. communicated, I guess. it doesn't matter. where i put the period
they have really ugly lawyers?
No. Like most aliens who walk among us impersonating humans, they have modified their appearance.
Ray Beckerman +5 Insightful
This is because the RIAA is a noble and beautiful organization that spends all of its time and resources doing good for the world. I don't know why so many people are anti RIAA when the RIAA is clearly the foremost steward of bringing world peace, ending hunger, bolstering the rights of individuals, and helping music artists to make their dreams come true. The RIAA is totally, completely, and in all other ways good. It is a perfect organization. There is no bad in the RIAA.
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