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Thomas' Testimony and the RIAA's Near-Fatal Error
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."
"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."
Looks from this, that you want the RIAA to win the case with last minute evidence. What side is the poster of this on?
You have three votes. I have 3 votes. The each and every voting age American on slashdot has three votes. Your parents have six votes. Your siblings have 3 votes each. Shall I go on?
If you can't convince the people you know to support your cause, maybe you should take a better look at your cause.
Either quit your fucking whining, stop breaking the law (which hurts your cause), and start a grass roots movement to change the law or shut the fuck up. I don't care which but I am fucking tired of hearing "It's too hard!" when you don't even try.
You want to go to the moon? Quit whining and build a fucking rocket to get you there or shut the fuck up. I don't care which you do, just do it.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.