ABA Judges Get an Earful About RIAA Litigations 349
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "I was afforded the opportunity to write for a slightly different audience — the judges who belong to the Judicial Division of the American Bar Association. I was invited by the The Judges Journal, their quarterly publication, to do a piece on the RIAA litigations for the ABA's Summer 2008 'Equal Access to Justice' issue. What I came up with was 'Large Recording Companies vs. The Defenseless: Some Common Sense Solutions to the Challenges of the RIAA Litigations,' in which I describe the unfairness of these cases and make 15 suggestions as to how the courts could level the playing field. I'm hoping the judges mod my article '+5 Insightful,' but I'd settle for '+3 Informative.' Here is the actual article (PDF). (If anyone out there can send me a decent HTML version of it, I'll run that one up the flagpole as well.)" Wired is helping to spread the word on Ray's article.
Damn it! (Score:5, Funny)
That article has a picture of you. Do you know what that means? It means it's harder to make snarky comments. Now my replies need to be thought out!
I mean, you look like one of us(except for the monkey suit).
you're doing it wrong (Score:5, Funny)
Re:you're doing it wrong (Score:4, Funny)
and the appropriate answer is 12/f/cf
Re:Wow (Score:4, Funny)
I also wish for a pony.
And blackjack!
Re:you're doing it wrong (Score:5, Funny)
What's a 12 year old girl doing in center field?
Re:you're doing it wrong (Score:5, Funny)
Lawyering, NewYorkCountry style.
Re:Hey NewYorkCountryLawyer (Score:5, Funny)
Saw your pic. I thought you were younger!
I used to be much younger. But that was quite a while ago.
Re:Damn it! (Score:5, Funny)
"I only wear the monkey suit for special events such as funerals, bar mitzvahs, and court appearances. I.e., just like you."
Eh, I dunno, the last bar mitzvah I went to, I dressed like a renaissance knight.
Re:Thank you for your efforts. (Score:5, Funny)
music thieves and the large Internet criminal element do thank you, NewYorkCountryLawyer
Is that you, MediaSentry? I didn't know the internet criminal element were posting in this thread.
Re:Thank you for your efforts. (Score:3, Funny)
Never mind that, did they give you free tickets to Mamma Mia?
Re:+5 Insightful? +3 Informative? (Score:5, Funny)
Funny, I didn't realize the ABA utilized slashcode.
I guess you didn't read my Slashdot interview [slashdot.org] and the comments which followed it, where I said quite clearly [slashdot.org]:
Thank you all for the interview, and for the rough and tumble comment period which followed it. I really enjoyed it. It was incredible fun. I've even learned an important new legal research method in the process. A lawyer can't just read a bunch of cases and statutes to know what the law is. He also needs to come to Slashdot, because if somebody here says something's the law, and it gets moderated to +5, then it's the law. Maybe lawyers don't know it, and Congress doesn't know it, and the judges don't know it, but sooner or later, I'm sure they'll come around.
The legal profession is just starting to catch up to Slashdot, but we'll come around.
Re:+5 Insightful? +3 Informative? (Score:4, Funny)
It has become a geek meme. Can also be used as a pickup line, as in "Hey, babe, anyone ever tell you you're +5 beautiful?" Followed shortly by, "Hey, sweet stuff, I see you've barfed in your drink. Can I buy you another?"
Re:Hey NewYorkCountryLawyer (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Damn it! (Score:5, Funny)
"I only wear the monkey suit for special events such as funerals, bar mitzvahs, and court appearances. I.e., just like you."
Eh, I dunno, the last bar mitzvah I went to, I dressed like a renaissance knight.
Well I'm not a trend-setter like you.
Re:Damn it! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:you're doing it wrong (Score:3, Funny)
No, no, she's in Core Foundation. Running in loops.
Re:Wow (Score:1, Funny)
oh forget it- just give me the hookers and be done with it
Re:Thank you for your efforts. (Score:3, Funny)
Never mind that, did they give you free tickets to Mamma Mia?
What does free tickets have to do with anything? He's simply explaining to them: there's another side to the RIAA's arguments, and I'd like to articulate it, if you'll take a chance on me.
Re:All that needs to be said (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Hey NewYorkCountryLawyer (Score:3, Funny)
Never mind that AC... (Score:5, Funny)
Ladies and gentlemen, I have uncovered a plot! A fiendish plot that undermines the very foundations of Slashdot itself!
Notice how Ray Beckerman goes out and defends people against the RIAA, to win the hearts and minds of Slashdotters. Then he uses that goodwill to get stories published from the firehose, onto the front page. What happens next is the really fiendish bit: he posts a series of comments on the article, whereupon the moderators invariably mod them up to +5.
Can't you see what he's doing? It all fits: Ray Beckerman is a karma whore! This is a bigger conspiracy than twitter and his sock puppets!
Re:Thank you for your efforts. (Score:3, Funny)
This is exactly what they do, ever heard of shoplifting?
Re:NYCL's silence means...(A POLL) (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Wow (Score:4, Funny)
If you have hookers, why screw the pony?
Unless...
Re:Hey NewYorkCountryLawyer (Score:2, Funny)
I was young once, but I got over it. (Mark Twain)
Re:Thank you for your efforts. (Score:4, Funny)
Shed a tear? I'd pay for the bacon!
Re:Question for NYCL... (Score:2, Funny)
#104052
-NES- lol
-NES- I download something from Napster
-NES- And the same guy I downloaded it from starts downloading it from me when I'm done
-NES- I message him and say "What are you doing? I just got that from you"
-NES- "getting my song back fucker"
bash.org [bash.org]
Re:fishing with a net... (Score:3, Funny)
How many gigabytes of mp3s do I have to accumulate to level up to 'shark with frickin' laser beam on its head'?
Re:What's this I shit? (Score:5, Funny)
I? Who the fuck are you?
You must be new here.
Re:Wow. (Score:4, Funny)
Ray, You rock! Great article! I'm not worthy. I'm not worthy. Seriously, I sent the link to both my friends!
Thanks for reminding me. I need to send it to my friend.
Re:All that needs to be said (Score:5, Funny)
He gets paid to submit articles to Slashdot?
Don't I wish.
Re:Damn it! (Score:4, Funny)
I'll have you know I don't even own a monkey suit. :-)
The dearly departed don't care what you wear, they're dead.
I've never been to a bar mitzvah.
For my only court appearance so far, I wore shorts and a T-shirt.
OK OK.
I take back the part about "just like you".
Re:Thank you for your efforts. (Score:3, Funny)
I don't know... I don't think alligators would enjoy eating undead blood-sucking vampires.
If an alligator were to unwittingly swallow an RIAA lawyer, he would definitely spit it back; if alligators can spit. If they can't spit, well..... you know.... they'd regurgitate.
Re:Never mind that AC... (Score:2, Funny)
no, no, don't you see? In the universe everything has a polar opposite.. Ray is the anti-Roland Piquepaille.
If one posts a story and links to the other Slashdot will implode! (or explode?)