Camara Goes On Offense Against the RIAA

whisper_jeff writes "Ars has an excellent write up outlining how Kiwi Camara (Jammie Thomas-Rasset's new lawyer) is following the 'Best Defense is a Good Offense' philosophy and going on the attack against the RIAA. Not content to just defend his client, he is laying siege against the RIAA's entire campaign and beginning the work of dismantling it from the bottom up, starting with the question of whether they actually do own the copyrights that were allegedly infringed. And, if you're thinking this is good for everyone who's been harassed by the RIAA, you'd be right — Camara, along with Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson, plans to file a class-action suit seeking to force the RIAA to return all the (ill-gotten) money they've earned from their litigation campaign." We first discussed the efforts of Nesson and Camara to thwart the RIAA last month.

Comments

Hmmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

What does the Campaign for Real Ale have against the RIAA?

More exciting than the play offs

[Monkeedude1212]

I think this is the equivalent of the breakaway in the third period last night.

Re:More exciting than the play offs

[berashith]

exciting, but ultimately resulting in a loss?

Re:More exciting than the play offs

[AndrewNeo]

This is Slashdot. Anything is more exciting than sports.

Re:More exciting than the play offs

[dna_(c)(tm)(r)]

What is this "sports" you speak of?

Its a generic name for a certain type application (OSI Model, Application Layer), it often relies on NPT (Newtonian Physics Transport) and BCC (Body Collision Crumpling) in the transport and network layers.

Re:More exciting than the play offs

[edalytical]

Lies, damned lies.

Sport is a type of car where cost approaches out-of-my-price-range for large values of features or for certain values of make.

Camera goes on offense against RIAA

[gparent]

Refuses to film copyrighted content!

Kiwi?

[Anonymous Coward]

That is a hell of a name for a lawyer.

"Meet Kiwi Camara. He's a high-powered defense attorney by day... and she's a pole-riding stripper by night! What will happen when these two lives collide? Find out this Fall on Barely Legal, only on Fox!"

lawyers.

[gd2shoe]

IANAL

Someone on slashdot once wrote "99% of all lawyers make the rest of us look bad".

Re:lawyers.

[d'fim]

"How often did you tell your boss it takes 2 hours even though you knew it would take 2 minutes so you can slack off?"

Not often enough to offset all the times he has given me 2-hour tasks and expected results inside of 2 minutes.

Re:lawyers.

[Mordok-DestroyerOfWo]

I remember when I first started reading /. (well before I signed up for an account) I would often seen IANAL. I didn't pick up on what it was for the longest time, I just figured it was people really into anal, either that or Apple's latest piece of hardware. Remember, when the iAnal 3G comes out to get the one with 32GB of capacity.

Re:lawyers.

[smitty97]

I often wish we could mod things "+1 Sad but True".

Stop copying Metallica!

Re:lawyers.

[StuartHankins]

See? It changed already!

MST3K Singalong Time!

[snarfies]

Camaraaaaaaaaaa! Camaraaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Camara is really neat,
Camara the RIAA won't beat,
We've been eating Kiwi, Camara!

Re:How practical is such a boycott?

[plover]

BTW, boycott the major labels, listen to indie music. By boycott I mean don't just not buy, don't even download or listen.

How do I avoid listening to major label music at work or in a grocery store?

You could try clapping your hands over your ears and loudly shouting "LA-LA-LA!" while you walk down the aisles of the grocery store. You'd probably benefit the other shoppers who would be also unable to hear the Muzak over your masking noise.

I'm not sure how you'd keep the music stopped once you've been committed into the asylum, however.

IANAL

[jockeys]

but neither is Jack Thompson!

Sorry, I'd been waiting a while for an excuse to say that in a slightly relevant way.

Re:Dangerous

[Anonymous Coward]

practicing lesbian...?

Re:Camara is a friend to all children!

[dzfoo]

Isn't that Gamera?

      -dZ.

Re:Camara is a friend to all children!

[Missing_dc]

Where??

Re:A$$ kickin' time

[mcgrew]

Well, the internet did change everything. But like at slashdot, it was offtopic and the Supreme Court modded him down.

Re:How practical is such a boycott?

[jamstar7]

So in other words, just become an anti-social asshole!

They're already on /., how much more do they need to do before hanging the 'Mission Acomplished' sign?

Re:Dangerous

[TheLuggage2008]

This rookie kid might just as well land the RIAA a win.

Has the MPAA taught you nothing?

1. Rudy Baylor successfully sued his client's insurance company for their illegal policies, a young lawyer with little experience trying the case of his life (The Rainmaker)
2. Erin Brockovich investigated lots of stuff until she learned things that made a California power company admit wrongdoing and pay out wads of cash
3. Vinny Gambini won his first ever trial, and that was a murder trial in front of a hostile judge...

With just a little Disney "can-do" attitude, this case is a lock for our scrappy little legal-eagle.