RIAA Throws In Towel On "Making Available" Case

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA has thrown in the towel on one of the leading cases challenging its 'making available' theory, Warner v. Cassin, in which the defendant had moved to dismiss the RIAA's complaint. We have just learned that the RIAA submitted a voluntary notice of dismissal before the judge got to decide the defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint. It will be of interest to see if Ms. Cassin pursues a claim for attorneys' fees in view of recent court rulings that successful copyright defendants are presumptively entitled to an attorneys fee award, even if the dismissal came about from the plaintiffs' having 'thrown in the towel.'"

Re:About time.

[s.bots]

But that is similar to a police person taking a 'girl' out on a date, drinks, home for sex, then offering to pay for the sex and arresting her when she refuses and claims that is not why she dresses up nicely, and didn't know it would attract that kind of attention.

What?

More importantly...

[MRe_nl]

, a towel has immense psychological value.
Any organisation who can sue the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where it's towel is, is clearly an organisation to be reckoned with.

Re:But what does it have to do with the Bible?

[skis]

Religious typosquatters vs. technically-informed lawyer. Both are very rare.

Re:Interesting..

[Kingrames]

"Settlement money is where it's at, baby."

Except that they LOSE money on every settlement!

Haven't you been following along with the stories?

Re:cow suuuuuit!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

put it ON!!! The cow suuuuiiit!!!!

No, this thread's about the RIAA trial. The one with the four girls painted up to look like cows was this [slashdot.org] trial.

Re:Isn't copyright infringement when a COPY is mad

[NewYorkCountryLawyer]

I'm certainly not the most up to date on all the RIAA's done, etc. however ... It seems to me that it's the DUPLICATION that is an infringement of copyright and not simply making something available........ but what am I missing?

You're not missing anything.

It's the RIAA's lawyers that are missing something. I'm not sure what they're missing, but I've got it narrowed down to 2 things: (1) brain cells, or (2) integrity. Or possibly some of each.

Re:About time.

[Crunchie Frog]

Hypothetical example: Charlie and Denise (fictitious names of the "Alice and Bob" variety) both have computers.

OK... so... why not just use "Alice and Bob"? Geez. More names I have to remember.

Alice and Bob have a full schedule these days doing encryption and key distribution examples. Also their rates are very high.