RIAA Campaign Against Students Hits Stormier Seas 296
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "It's been astutely observed that the RIAA's "ex parte" campaign against "John Doe" college students seems to have run into much stormier waters than its campaign against regular folks. Discovery motions were thrown out by the judges in cases involving the University of New Mexico and the College of William and Mary, and motions to quash have been made by students at Boston University, Oklahoma State University, and the University of South Florida. The RIAA might find it particularly troubling that the students are coming in armed with substantial expert witness declarations attacking the entire underpinning of the RIAA's case, that the students are finding each other and banding together, and that the Chairman of Boston University's Computer Science Department went to bat — as an expert witness — for the BU students."
in defense of the RIAA: (Score:5, Funny)
ha!
we have LAWYERS
lots and lots of LAWYERS
platoons of them!
fact: there is no problem we the RIAA have faced that couldn't be solved just by throwing LAWYERS at it. a problem? sue someone! PROBLEM SOLVED! don't you people get it?
in fact, the entirety of human technological progress, in the form of the internet ruining our business model, means nothing. we can stop progress itself by just suing people
sue! sue! sue! there: it's all gold and honey again, no more problems
don't you silly college students get it yet?
Scoob (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Students are the biggest activist demographic (Score:3, Funny)
Soylent green?
Re:in defense of the RIAA: (Score:2, Funny)
Re:RIAA (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I want to be the first... (Score:3, Funny)
Your tears are like milk.
Re:You forgot... (Score:5, Funny)
*Major* (pun intended) miscalculation (Score:4, Funny)
Has anyone at the RIAA been to a University? LOL.
They should have stuck to twelve-year-old girls and their terrified parents. They're going to get their asses handed to them on any campus, especially private schools. Anyone who can afford a private school education is likely to be able to afford one hell of a defense.
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Toro
Re:You forgot... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You forgot... (Score:3, Funny)
DMCA Notices (Score:3, Funny)
We laughed our asses off. If they took us to court we could do all sorts of things from claiming to have an unsecured wireless network to bringing up ip spoofing, to... you name it.
Prove I did it.
Well we have these logs with an IP address...
Yeah, but prove I did it.
Re:You forgot... (Score:3, Funny)