Judge Shuts Down RIAA in Music Piracy Case

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Another legal setback was dealt against The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) when a judge presiding over a music piracy case denied a ruling. The judge ruled that copyright laws aren't violated when making a shared folder available with music files in it.

The RIAA stated in the case of Atlantic vs. Howell that it is illegal to store legally ripped music in a shared folder. Since the term "shared folder" is a broad catagory, their assertion of unlawfulness is not clear.

The ruling last week by U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake shut those assertions down. Judge Wake also threw out all of the RIAA's motions, including other "shared folder" ideas such as "offer to distribute" and "make available."

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/13812.cfm
 
Highly misleading article title, as the RIAA is still at large but it may as well be held together with strings now. This case has really weakened them, and sets massive precedents - in other words, leave everyone alone.
 
AcidHell2 said:
However this is in the US and so doesn't have any affect on uk law.
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True, but I thought most of the cases where someone was brought before a judge for piracy were brought about buy the American organizations like the RIAA and the MPAA.
 
Nexus said:
True, but I thought most of the cases where someone was brought before a judge for piracy were brought about buy the American organizations like the RIAA and the MPAA.
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That's because there's been very few charges in England. Ones we here about are in america hence why you always here of RIAA
Different country different procedures. We've been pretty shielded here. Even though are current laws allow less freedom.
 
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Thought they didn't sue people in britain as they couldn't get punitive charges in the hundreds of thousands here?
 
Tefal said:
Thought they didn't sue people in britain as they couldn't get punitive charges in the hundreds of thousands here?
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They wont get that in America either unless the blokes rich. Although I think there's been a handful of people charged. Not sure exactly what for.
 
AcidHell2 said:
They wont get that in America either unless the blokes rich. Although I think there's been a handful of people charged. Not sure exactly what for.
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/riaa-jury-finds.html

DULUTH, Minnesota -- Jammie Thomas, a single mother of two, was found liable Thursday for copyright infringement in the nation's first file-sharing case to go before a jury.

Twelve jurors here said the Minnesota woman must pay $9,250 for each of 24 shared songs that were the subject of the lawsuit, amounting to $222,000 in penalties.
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Apparently they could have gone as high as 3.6 million :eek:
 
Good stuff, I say. Even though it shouldn't affect the UK much, it probably would if some massive ruling was made against them - with them being an American organisation and all. Would love to see the RIAA fall to pieces.

AcidHell2 said:
Even though are current laws allow less freedom.
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Our...

Sorry, but that's one of the few things that really bugs me :p
 
-Ad- said:
Mine is called win32, then kernal debug, then drivers, then pr0n :D
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Mine is just F:\Porn and it's openly shared on the network (which is shared with two other flats). It's ok, it's all home made and starring me, so I'm not breaking any copyright laws.
 
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