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.

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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:More exciting than the play offs

[AndrewNeo]

This is Slashdot. Anything is more exciting than sports.

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: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: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: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.

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?