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Tenenbaum said he was "not displeased with the jury considering how the trial went." This is probably the first reasonable thing anyone involved with this tria
by blasdel 17y ago
Tenenbaum said he was "not displeased with the jury considering how the trial went."
This is probably the first reasonable thing anyone involved with this trial (save the Judge, I suppose) has said to date. The RIAA really lucked out by suing someone even douchier than themselves, and then got an exponential boon when the plaintiff's counsel (Charlie Nesson) turned out to me even more of an asshat by orders of magnitude.
The plaintiff in the first case was a fuckup too, to a lesser degree. I guess you have to be a major idiot to still be using a Fasttrack client in 2008 at all, much less after getting infringement letters.
Why is everyone involved in the 'copyfight' so incompetent? Even Lessig has epically lost every single IP case he's ever litigated!
- lutorm 17y agoWhy is everyone involved in the 'copyfight' so incompetent? Even Lessig has epically lost every single IP case he's ever litigated! Maybe that has more to do with how the deck is stacked than how competent they are?
- jacquesm 17y agoI think the Lessig case was essentially a miscarriage of justice. Until that case I was on the fence wrt to the MPAA having too much influence in hollywood. Even the mickey mouse copyright extension when taken in the literal legal sense (and that is all the fashion, go for the letter, not the intention of the law) was understandable in a warped sense. Ever since that lawsuit I've been fighting back in my own warped way, it was my main motivator in launching http://mxchg.com/ http://mxchg.com/ , a media player with a friend-to-friend network built in. Good luck getting that blocked.