RIAA Case May Be Televised On Internet
Found on Slashdot on Friday, 26 December 2008
In SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, the Boston case in which the defendant is represented by Prof. Charles Nesson and his CyberLaw class at Harvard Law School, the defendant has requested that audio-visual coverage of the court proceedings be made available to the public via the internet.
Surely education is the purpose of the Digital Deterrence Act of 1999, the constitutionality of which we are challenging. How can RIAA object? Yet they do, fear of sunlight shone upon them.
Sure they are afraid of letting outsiders see what happens in the court room. Especially because quite a percentage of those outsiders knows way more about P2P-facts than any of the judges. They could easily tear apart those made-up arguments the RIAA presents. "Educating the public" is perfectly fine; but only as long as the public gets educated the RIAA way.