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RIAA Tries To Appeal Order Allowing Internet TV Court Broadcast
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA has appealed the order entered several days ago allowing the January 22nd hearing in SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum to be streamed over internet TV. Additionally, they've made a motion for a stay. I'm just a country lawyer, but as far as I know: (a) it's not possible to appeal the order, (b) it was procedurally improper and ineffective to file a notice of appeal, and (c) it was improper to direct their motion for a stay to the District Court Judge. Well, let's hope the arguments in the First Circuit will be streamed, too. Meanwhile, one commentator wonders why the tooth and nail opposition to broadcasting, since the professed aim of the litigations was to 'educate' the public?"
Does this mean I don't have to TiVo Judge Judy anymore?!?!???
What the RIAA is upset about is that people can download it for free. They don't want people pirating their court appearances!
So I take it you've never seen Matlock? ;)
*ducking*
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They went on to explain this was because the court refused to give fair payment to the artists/performers (lawyers) for the massive distribution of the video over the internet.
I'm sick of people wasting screen real-estate with their references to Godwin's law, as if it makes an analogy any less valid.
For all we know, NYCL or anybody else who invokes a Hitler analogy has no idea or couldn't give a rat's ass what Godwin's law is. Fuck Godwin's law and the cheeky little fuckers who waste my screen real estate calling people on it. And fuck me for making an offtopic post.
Only on slashdot will the supporting anecdote be longer than the point it's supporting.
Just another "DOJ fascist authoritarian totalitarian bootlicker" -- Zeio
just charge people to view the court broadcast? That way, no persons involved can come back and sue the viewers who got free "entertainment".
I think the original phrase may have been "teach the public a lesson"?
A pizza of radius z and thickness a has a volume of pi z z a
Just because you are unable to understand it doesn't mean it doesn't make any sense.
A good education is a bit like a STD - it makes you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and gives you a desire to spread it.
I won't comment on whether or not I have a degree of any sort or what type of degree it is if I do have one. What I will tell you is that I've always felt that my education is far too important to me to be trusted to the complete strangers who call themselves professionals because they have made a profession out of something that is not inherently a business transaction. To abandon my education (let alone my edification) to them would be a failure to take responsibility for my own life. Modern education has many primary purposes but enlightened, tough-minded individuals who are capable of critical thinking and are not easily misled by propaganda and misinformation is definitely not one of them.
Oops. I didn't mean to post that anonymously (I should watch where I click eh?). This is my writing.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
NYCL gets all the pussy while you're stuck beating your shrivelled, uncircumsized needledick on weekends
What's wrong with being uncircumcised? ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Sounds like you are looking for an explanation from Matt "The Dentist" Oppenheim, who directs the HRO team and local counsel. Based on his demeanor in the Joel Tenenbaum deposition in this case, he appears to have gone from just plain nasty to borderline obsessive.
What they don't want is for everyone to be "educated" before winning the court case. Otherwise, people will see the tactics they use and the unwashed masses may become actively hostile toward their cause.
The unwashed masses just can't get enough of tort on TV.
If the "writ of mandamus or prohibition" ever gets decided on the merits, it will be denied. The RIAA tries to read Rule 83.3 (the rule that governs recordings and broadcasts of a case) in a way to which it is not susceptible. Specifically, ...
83.3(a) reads, "Except as specifically provided in these rules OR by order of the court ..."
Rule 83.3(c) reads, "The court may permit ..." followed by a list of certain types of proceedings.
The RIAA wants 83.3(c) to apply as a limitation to 83.3(a) "... by order of the court .." However, 83.3(c) is a rule, and as such it applies to 83.3(a) "specifically provided in these rules". For example, this rule permits a court to allow a recording of proceedings without the need to resort to an order.
Sorry folks, I have read too many SCO v. The World Court filings. The RIAA thinks just like SCO. Oh yes, SCO is now in bankruptcy.
Here is the Court filing:
http://beckermanlegal.com/pdf/?file=/Lawyer_Copyright_Internet_Law/sony_tenenbaum_090117PetitionWritProhibitionMandamus.pdf
Actually reading the rule? What a radical concept. How come no one told the RIAA lawyers about that?
Ray Beckerman +5 Insightful
Sounds like you are looking for an explanation from Matt "The Dentist" Oppenheim, who directs the HRO team and local counsel. Based on his demeanor in the Joel Tenenbaum deposition in this case, he appears to have gone from just plain nasty to borderline obsessive.
1. Are the two concepts mutually exclusive?
2. Why borderline?
Ray Beckerman +5 Insightful
If you are indeed human I think the most impor[t]ant work you can do is to prove that these other lawyers are highly evolved leeches that had absorbed human DNA.
If you want to make anti-lawyer jokes, well I can't stop you from that. But I must protest your attempt to insult leeches.
I have detected no signs of life, much less any human DNA, in my 'worthy opponents'.
Ray Beckerman +5 Insightful
And may god help you if I ever hear you dissing MY old profession .... military intelligence :-)
We need a "+5 eww" mod.
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You were a professional oxymoron?
Hold on, someone's at my door...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Of course. Doing such things continuously will get you into trouble.