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RIAA Argument About Streaming To Be Streamed
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "You may recall that in an RIAA case, SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, the district court ruled that an oral argument about the constitutionality of statutory damages could be streamed, and the RIAA has been fighting that with a petition for 'mandamus or prohibition' in the appeals court, which is opposed by the press. Interestingly, it now turns out that the appeals court's oral argument about the streaming will itself be recorded and then streamed. It is hard to imagine how a court which routinely streams its own oral arguments can rule that it is somehow inappropriate for similar oral arguments in the district court to be streamed as well."
The truth shall set you free!
Stream away!
My rights don't need management.
... the arguments might have to expose some information that should be under seal.
And I fail to see how anything like that might come up in a constitutionality-of-statutory-damages argument.
But IANAL. (Hi, NYCL!)
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I don't think so (but hey, it's the US legal system; common sense does seldom apply). Using a certain common-place technology is vastly different from openly supporting a specific faith/school of thought. Nobody in their right mind would call a judge who handles a case about a car driver hitting a pedestrian biased just because he drove to the court house in his car.
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The Pirate Bay trial didnt get streamed but a bunch of dedicated live-bloggers can make a huge impact. Ridiculous arguments and outright lies get dissected, laughed at and commented to the old-style media. (who acctualy picked it up for once)