RIAA case will be streamed live to the Web
A US COURT hearing which is part of a music piracy lawsuit filed by the Recording Industry Association of America against a Boston University graduate student will be streamed to the Internet.
US District Judge Nancy Gertner has allowed the Courtroom View Network to send a live video feed of the hearing to Harvard University's Berkman Centre for Internet & Society. From there it will go live to the rest of the planet.
The RIAA argued that the streaming could prejudice potential jurors but the claim was rejected as "specious."
It is more likely that the RIAA is worried that it will lose and wants to limit the number of people who find out about it.
The Music Industry Mafiaa is going up against some of the best legal minds in Harvard.µ
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"It is more likely that the RIAA is worried that it will lose and wants to limit the number of people who find out about it."
Come on, if they lose, every man and his dog will know about it regardless !
Since there is no such thing as a music mafia, one would have to conclude that Mr. Farrell's distorted view of reality has no merit.
All civilized countries have and will continue to enforce copyright law be it music, software or other art. Attacking the RIAA for properly prosecuting pirates of copyright protected music or software is not only ignorant it's futile. Virtually all courts around the world enforce copyright laws as they should.
My hope is that all copyright holders prosecute pirates to the full extent of the law. Piracy is a choice to violate law. There should be a severe punishment for choosing to hide behind a PC monitor to steal someone else's copyright protected works. Stiff fines and mandatory jail time would be a practical and suitable deterrent. They make prisons for those who can't abide by the laws of society.
I can't lose the feeling you must have slept under a rook the past ten odd years...
...the point is not that copyright is violated but that the RIAA is taking approaches which hardly help anyone but themselves.
The actions of the RIAA have hurt both: the music industry and the customer by not adopting to the future and blaming their loss onto the "pirates". The money they gather using their methods doesn't go back to the artists either instead it hurts their reputation.
The time has changed and the big boys do not understand the game anymore and try to kill it off - without success.
Btw "Mafiaa" is an inq term you should be familar with if you show up on this site more frequently.
I want to make some popcorn and buy some beer, and throw it on the bigscreen.
It will be fun to watch the RIAA squirm!
They do NOT want to see this happening live on the Internet
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090118/1555513451.shtml
One wonders why: what are they trying so strenuously to hide or downplay?
I agree with thelmores, a link would be fabulous. Also, do you know if the Harvard people will be recording it for re-distribution? I've never attempted to record an online stream and the showing is only a few days away.
Let's do our best to get this stuff on Pirate Bay when it happens. Court hearings shouldn't contain a lot of physical movement, so a good choice of compression method should make the video way smaller than would be normally expected.