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Harvard Law's Nesson Says P2P Is "Fair Use"

Posted by timothy on from the hopefully-mix-tapes-are-a-corollary dept.

eldavojohn writes "Ars has been covering the story of Charlie Nesson (alias 'Billion Dollar Charlie') of Harvard Law who's tangoing with the RIAA in court. His approach has been revealed in e-mails on his blog and has confused everyone from Lawrence Lessig to the EFF. His argument is simple: file-sharing is legal as it is protected by fair use. I dare say that even the most avid file-sharers among us would be a bit skeptical of this line of reasoning."

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  1. Re:Pipe dream by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One of this issues I've got with slashdot is that in these kind of calculations people pretending to be interested in science (by virtue of their posting on this specific forum) just plug in numbers into a calculator and paste them.

    Why do people insist of giving us the exact number, rather than keep the first few significant figures and why is it that nobody uses scientific notation?

    (Sorry for the offtopic rant)