RIAA Awarded $675,000 In Tenenbaum Trial

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The jury awarded the record company plaintiffs $675,000 in the Boston trial defended by Prof. Charles Nesson, SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum. I was not surprised, since exactly none of the central issues ever even came up in this trial. The judge had instructed the jurors that Mr. Tenenbaum was liable, and that their only task was to come up with a verdict that was more than $22,500 and less than $4.5 million. According to the judge, her reason for doing so was that, when on the stand, the defendant was asked if he admitted liability, and he said 'yes.' The lawyers among you will know that that was a totally improper question, and that the Court should not have even allowed it, much less based her holding upon the answer to it."

Comments

Re:bankrupt then what?

[xav_jones]

You don't have to die waiting for surgery in countries with socialised health care. In fact, there is no difference between a nationalised health care system and what-ever-it-that-the-US-has in the situation described. The option to pay outright for the medical procedure is, I believe, always available. At least it has been in the three countries I've lived significant lengths of time in (Australia, Germany and the US). You can always rack up a large debt and file for bankruptcy in nationalised systems too. It's just not the number one reason for personal bankruptcies in those countries.

Re:someone paid for it

[d3ac0n]

So let me get this straight tizan:

Rather than a system which works to the benefit of everyone by providing a job and source of income for Google, it's thousands of employees, their thousands of advertisers and their (collectively) Millions upon millions of employees, and the thousands of ad companies and their (collectively) millions and millions of employees and all the providers of goods and services to each and every one of those companies and people and the literal BILLIONS of dollars it generates and the great lifestyles for all involved that pays for (not to mention the fantastic economic benefits for the rest of us that pumping that much spread out capital into the economy creates)...

You'd rather just have a small handful of Washington pointy-headed bureaucrats TAKE the money in the form of a tax from everyone (including some people that don't even OWN a PC) just so people don't have to look at ads.

Wow. You're a dick.