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- $1.9m verdict is unconstitutional, Thomas-Rasset says
- While an appeal is likely in the cards, the motion Jammie Thomas-Rasset's lawyers filed today was a request for new trial PDF or for the judge to alter the jury's "shocking" $1.9 million award. Thomas-Rasset's lawyers argued that (1) the jury's verdict of $80,000 per infringed...
- Tags: Lawyer, Jury, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, MediaSentry, Remittitur, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- RIAA's move to DtecNet may mean litigation strategy still alive
- MediaSentry out, DtecNet in. Does that mean the litigation strategy is still alive? by Richard Koman
- Tags: Strategy, RIAA, DtecNet, MediaSentry, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-01-06
- RIAA dumps its primary evidence collector
- The Recording Industry Association has dropped MediaSentry, an outfit that scans the Internet for folks allegedly uploading copyrighted music. According to the Wall Street Journal, the RIAA quietly dropped MediaSentry, a company that provided the RIAA most of its lawsuit firepower. The Journal makes the leap that...
- Tags: Lawsuit, RIAA, Recording Industry Association, MediaSentry, Journal, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-04
Additional Resources
- Tenenbaum defense relies on hot air, not facts
- Wacky Harvard Prof. Charles Nesson crumbled a styrofoam box and displayed a "Necker Cube" optical illusion in his opening statement in the Joel Tenenbaum filesharing trial, Ben Sheffner reports from Boston for Ars Technica. That proved apparently that the Internet transformed the quantum of music from...
- Tags: Witness, Music, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- $1.9m verdict is unconstitutional, Thomas-Rasset says
- $1.9m verdict is unconstitutional, Thomas-Rasset saysRasset should just pay the fine because...Jammie Thomas-Rasset should just pay the fine because I have heard that the RIAA is very close to gaining control of the U.S. Justice Dept., and they plan to raise the penalty for infringement of even one song to...
- Tags: NOW IT, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, RIAA, CD
- Discussion threads 2009-07-06
- Thomas-Rasset to appeal $1.9m verdict
- Thomas-Rasset to appeal $1.9m verdictShe sure did ask for it.By sharing copyright protected songs. She should stop trying to blame the RIAA for her predicament. Regardless of the appropriateness or not of the $1.9M award two juries have found her guilty of willful infringement. Own up to it and take...
- Tags: Litigation, Digital media, RIAA, Thomas-Rasset
- Discussion threads 2009-07-06
- Imagining a real-world verdict in Thomas-Rasset case
- Ray Beckerman has a nice little piece of vitriol about the crazy-ass $1.9 million judgment in the Capitol v Thomas-Rasset case. Ray imagines a parallel universe in which the trial was conducted according to the Federal Rules of Evidence and Civil Procedure. In this world, the RIAA needs some shred...
- Tags: RIAA, Ray Beckerman, Ray, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-21
- High drama and low points in RIAA trial
- High drama and low points in RIAA trialRichard, can you shed some light on a couple things.I don't know all the details of this trial so I'll talk in general terms about downloading files from a P2P or other source.Ask anyone in this forum and they will tell you I...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), RIAA, original work, P2P
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
- New Thomas trial opens with advantage to RIAA
- New Thomas trial opens with advantage to RIAANo hold....1. Mediacentry cannot be thrusted to produce evidence. it as a LONG criminal record and optain most of its so called proof illegally.2. A log file produce by such shady and court proven criminal corpoation (RIAA, Mediasentry), cannot be valid in court....
- Tags: RIAA
- Discussion threads 2009-06-15
- New Thomas trial opens with advantage to RIAA
- Reporting from the new Jammie Thomas-Rasset trial, Marc Bourgeois notes that jury selection is just about complete at this writing and that the jury is overall younger than the last one, surely good news for the defendant. Even so, it's an uphill battle for Thomas-Rasset, Ars Technica...
- Tags: RIAA, Thomas Trial, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, Kiwi Camara, Peer To Peer (P2P), Network Technology, Networking, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Brittany's story: a tale of heroism amid RIAA abuse
- Brittany Kruger may be a scared young lady but she has also proven to be a brave advocate for victims, like herself, of RIAA Mafia shake-downs, arm-twisting and assorted rough stuff. According to Ray Beckerman Brittany and her father's willingness to expose the fact that MediaSentry violated Michigan law by...
- Tags: RIAA, College Student, Michigan, Person, Brittany, P2Pnet, Litigation, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-03-01
- Thomas case reveals obscene penalties for P2P downloaders
- <Update>Further note from Ray Beckerman from Recording Industry v The People on the issue of whether MediaSentry's downloading would suffice for the distribution charge see Investigator Downloading section below: "There still has to be sale or other transfer of ownership, or rental, lease, or lending. And the dissemination has to...
- Tags: Distribution, P2P, RIAA, Verdict, Judge, Investigator Downloading, Thomas, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- RIAA loses $222K verdict against Jammy Thomas
- The $222,000 verdict against Jammy Thomas for copyright infringement by P2P is no more. U.S. District Court Judge Michael Davis dismissed the verdict PDF, saying it was based on the faulty "making available" theory of distribution. Thomas will face a new trial, in which the RIAA will have to prove...
- Tags: Distribution, P2P, RIAA, Verdict, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- News to know: Google; Web Olympics; Patch Tuesday; iPhone
- Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Will the Olympics melt the Internet? Time Warner's Olympic boost, courtesy NBC More worries for Beijing visitors Phil Wainewright: Hello, Google, is anyone in there? Larry Dignan: Google: Our AOL investment is ‘impaired’ ...
- Tags: apple iphone, google inc., web, larry dignan, health care, internet, vertical industries, benefits, e-mail, healthcare, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), enterprise software, software, human resources, online communications, operating systems, microsoft windows
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Expert praises, criticizes Atlantic v. Howell decision
- It's becoming clear that the Atlantic v. Howell decision is a major big deal in the RIAA lawsuit landscape, as the heavy hitters are starting to comment. William Patry just published a seven-volume treatise on copyright law, Patry on Copyright (yours for just over $1,500). He's also...
- Tags: Copyright Law, Judge, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Judge decisively rejects RIAA legal theory
- Judge decisively rejects RIAA legal theoryNiceOK so if I buy a CD and let strangers walk in my house and listen to them I'm infringing on copyright! hahahaha!This judge probablydissented just to get his name in the paper. Because hundreds of other judges have upheld the theory, because it's pretty...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Copyright-Infringement, theory, legal theory, RIAA, music
- Discussion threads 2008-04-30
- Judge decisively rejects RIAA legal theory
- A federal district judge has delivered a pretty resounding blow to a theory the RIAA has been using to win verdicts in its copyright-infringement lawsuit campaign. In Atlantic Records v. Howell, Judge Neil Wake refused the RIAA's motion for summary judgment based on the "making available" theory. ...
- Tags: Theory, RIAA, Judge, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Oregon AG office to RIAA: 10 things we want to know about how you find file-sharing students
- If you think the Recording Institute Association of America is going too far in its prosecution (or should that be persecution?) of college students who file-share from time to time, you'll love the news that Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers is adding meat to the University...
- Tags: RIAA, File-sharing, Myers, Lindor, Peer To Peer (P2P), Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- RIAA defendant vows to fight on
- Jammie Thomas will appeal the $222,000 verdict a jury handed down against her in the first filesharing infringement trial, she announced on MySpace page. She says her attorney "floored" her during a CNN appearance when asked what her next step would be. But surprise, surprise, my...
- Tags: Theory, RIAA, Attorney, Jury Instruction, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- Fined $222,000 Jammie Thomas' MySpace friends send $957 and counting: and she says "WE'LL APPEAL!!"
- Notice the reference to "Determined?" You are looking at Jammie Thomas' MySpace page. Sure does fit. That's Jammie Thomas, the Brainerd, Minn. woman who was fined $222,000 by an RIAA-attuned jury without too much of a brain, has some things...
- Tags: RIAA, MySpace, Attorney, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
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