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| DATE | 2007-01-28 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] P2P trail with the RIAAA starts tomorrow here in NYC
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RIAA Hearing Tomorrow in NYC... Does Making Available = Copyright Infringement?
Posted by Kurtis - Jan. 26, 2007 - 4:16 pm from P2Pnet
This is by way of a Good Luck! to Ray Beckerman, the lawyer who tomorrow will represent New York health worker Tenise Barker when the the Big 4 Organized Music cartel's RIAA will try to make the case that 'Making Available' equals copyright infringement.
Boiled down, this means the Recording Industry Association of America, owned by EMI (Britain), Vivendi Universal (France) and Sony BMG (Japan and Germany), with Warner Music (run by a Canadian) as the only American label, will try to justify the ludicrous assertion that anyone with a shared folder containing legally obtained copyrighted files which has been online, even for a second, is guilty of copyright infringement.
Think about what that would mean. If the Big 4 can get it by, it'll threaten the fabric of the entire Net ultimately affecting everyone, everywhere. But if they fail, their whole, flimsy file sharing house of cards will come crashing down.
The argument will take place at 2:15 pm in the newer federal court house at 500 Pearl Street, New York, New York, in courtroom 21D on the 21st Floor. It's near Brooklyn Bridge/Worth St stop on the 4, 5 & 6 trains.
Read the full story at P2Pnet
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