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Prof. Nesson Ordered To Show Cause

Posted by kdawson on from the does-not-sound-good dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Professor Charles Nesson, the Harvard law professor serving pro bono as counsel to the defendant in SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, has been ordered to show cause why sanctions should not be issued against him for violating the Court's orders prohibiting reproduction of the court proceedings. The order to show cause was in furtherance of the RIAA's motion for sanctions and protective order, which we discussed here yesterday. The Judge indicated that she was 'deeply concerned' about Prof. Nesson's apparent 'blatant disregard' of her order."

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  1. Too much detail by whiledo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Do we really need so many status updates on the day-to-day goings-on in all the RIAA trials and scandals. Isn't this why NYCL has a blog? The posting of this minutae is actually making me care less about fighting the RIAA. Considering how much I dislike them, that's a pity.

    I don't blame NYCL (and others) for submitting them (hey, most people are pretty narrowly focused on their own hobbies), but surely the editors can find something else in the pile of submissions that would be even slightly more interesting.

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    1. Re:Too much detail by whiledo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Nope, not bitter, just like to have discussions about something interesting, rather than rehash the same old arguments every time. Most of the slashdot is already sold on the RIAA=evil topic. We don't need what amounts to a blog about it as part of the front page.

      Journals are useless for what I'm talking about. I'm looking for the discussions that come about by posting an article where the whole of the slashdot readership will see and comment about it. Journals don't fit the bill.

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    2. Re:Too much detail by whiledo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      If slashdot wants to make me an editor, I'd be happy to help them out with that.

      Your uid is too high.

      Nah. When they make me editor, I just get them to change the password on my earliest account that still points to my old college email address. It's 10k below timothy.

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    3. Re:Too much detail by ground.zero.612 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I have no mod points but I'd like to see a +5 Redundant for the rest of this guys whines in this thread.

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    4. Re:Too much detail by whiledo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      My point and the reason I posted was to make some people realize that hey, this stuff has been posted in too fine a level of detail. Considering the moderation on my first comment, I can see I'm not the only one. I'm hoping it will influence people on the firehose and more importantly the slashdot editors reading it to reflect on just how much they're approving stories that are basically only about today's legal minutiae. I'm posting a lot on this particular thread following from my original comment because people keep asking me questions (even if it's just their rhetorical attempt to flame me).

      And then I get the legions of people whining that they're tired of me whining. That's probably been the funniest part of the whole thread.

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    5. Re:Too much detail by causality · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      It's funny how you don't follow your own logic - no one forced you to read any of my posts. And yet apparently you've read many. And you needed to post to complain about them. This same urge is what led me to complain about the story. It's pretty common human nature. Not going to put you down for it, but I hope you realize that you've displayed the same mentality.

      There's one thing critical to this discussion, so far as it concerns me, that you are missing. I was not complaining. I was telling you what I believe to be the truth of the matter, the actual underlying thing behind the otherwise superficial and uninteresting subject of whether or not you are enjoying Slashdot's editorial decisions.

      I was trying to make you aware of something that I consider to be far more important than which story Slashdot decides to put on the front page. That's because I don't think Slashdot's editorial decisions have much of an impact on your well-being. However, I have never seen that entitlement mentality displayed by a happy person whose attitude towards life can be described as "joyous." Occasionally I encounter people who aren't satisfied with that and are grateful to learn that the decisions they make can change it. I am perceptive but I am not a mind-reader, so I don't know if you are such a person until after I try and show you what you are doing.

      So, I am following my own logic. It just wasn't the logic you were expecting. I did tell you what that logic was, however. To quote myself:

      Now I will tell you one occurrence that is extremely rare, as in it nearly never happens: pointing out to someone in a non-inflammatory, reasonable way that they are displaying an entitlement mentality, and then having them appreciate it and understand that there are more graceful ways. I'm betting you won't appreciate this, but what the hell, thought I'd give it a shot.

      If you think I have something to gain by deceiving you, then I celebrate your right to go on believing that I am a hypocrite who is obtuse enough to complain about your complaining as you have indicated. If someone wanted to take that right away from you, I would be against that person and would explain to them why they are wrong for wanting to do so. That's easy for me, however, because whether you see my point or not is entirely your gain or your loss. The people who need you to agree with them are not coming from a position that could possibly hope to show you much of anything that you didn't already see yourself.

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    6. Re:Too much detail by whiledo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Oh, I agree the issue is major, but won't that issue be decided when the judge rules and not be this order?

      That's what I mean. If this had been a story about the ruling, I wouldn't have complained. But this boils down to "the judge is thinking about doing something but hasn't done it yet."

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  2. Hey AC Troll by whiledo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You can't even fool yourself.

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    1. Re:Hey AC Troll by sbeckstead · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      No, you may go too!

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  3. Re:I'm deeply concerned by macraig · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you change that to Right Said Fred, then you can finally say you have some real non-imaginary friends.

  4. Re:cut the frickin guy some slack, he has a point by S7urm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're not proving your point. Just give it up. Some people want to read this -- me for instance. Complain to the site admins, not the site readers. You've thrown this discussion way off course. I saw you claim "If you don't like what I've written, don't complain to me, lest you're a hypocrite." Well, honestly, how can anyone NOT read your crap seeing that you've taken up 3/4 of the god damn discussion. Suddenly this entire topic became about YOU and YOU alone.

    you mean kinda like the frontpage of Slashdot has become about the RIAA, and the RIAA alone?

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  5. Re:cut the frickin guy some slack, he has a point by Starlon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't be so absolutely ridiculous.

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  6. Re:cut the frickin guy some slack, he has a point by S7urm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't be so absolutely ridiculous.

    you're ridiculous

    shall we venture further into childishness or can we stop now?

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  7. Re:cut the frickin guy some slack, he has a point by Starlon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So you're blaming your shortcoming on others? That's a fair discussion.

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