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Thomas' Testimony and the RIAA's Near-Fatal Error

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-doing-themselves-any-favors dept.

eldavojohn writes "The long and torrid trial of Jammie Thomas is in its second stage and in full swing. Yesterday, two major events took place: Thomas gave her surprising testimony and the RIAA was threatened for not disclosing new information to the opposing counsel. Thomas claimed she didn't know what KaZaA was before the trial started. She also admitted that the hard drive handed over to investigators was different than the one that was in her computer during the time of infringement. Her testimony from the first trial was that 'the hard drive replacement had taken place in 2004 and that the drive had not been swapped again since.' This is problematic because the new hard drive had a manufacturing date of 2005. The RIAA had its own troubles, almost losing all evidence from a particular witness when they added an additional log file to evidence without the defense being notified of it. The judge mercifully only removed that new evidence from the trial. It was related to whether or not an external hard drive was ever connected to the computer."

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  1. Are you aware of what "Fatal" means? by gosand · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sheesh.

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    1. Re:Are you aware of what "Fatal" means? by eosp · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm having trouble parsing your sentence. Mentioning RIAA lawyers and honor in the same sentence confuses me.

    2. Re:Are you aware of what "Fatal" means? by mea37 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Huh... So, for instance, you can't deal with: "The RIAA lawyers are not following the rules of evidence, Your Honor"?

  2. Re:innocent until proven? by RemoWilliams84 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The RIAA (not the "state")

    I thought they were the same thing now.

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  3. Re:innocent until proven? by RabidMoose · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not yet. The RIAA's still making it's layaway payments.

  4. Re:And the evidence is compelling... by AndersOSU · · Score: 2, Funny

    then they brought suit against the juror who started humming along.

  5. Re:And the evidence is compelling... by Anarchduke · · Score: 2, Funny

    Offline?

    Oh yeah, I can see that. Her high school yearbook photo shows her picture and the caption Jammie "xogirl423" Thomas.

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