tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15479871.post3960633294315995027..comments2024-03-22T03:28:24.897-04:00Comments on Recording Industry vs The People: Joan Cassin disagrees with RIAA request for discovery in Warner v. Cassinraybeckermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11063235302436280455noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15479871.post-88070378121461339262008-04-22T11:29:00.000-04:002008-04-22T11:29:00.000-04:00The judge should be asking the Plaintiffs one ques...The judge should be asking the Plaintiffs one question:<BR/><BR/>How do you tie the person you've sued directly to the infringing acts you allege?<BR/><BR/>And if there is a second question to be asked at the very outset, it would be:<BR/><BR/>What evidence would specifically prove your allegations of copyright infringement through illegal uploading or downloading, and where exactly will you get it?<BR/><BR/>You see, I don't believe that the RIAA can identify any infringer at the time they sue, and that their case is unprovable, although they'll throw up so much B.S. that they'll convince people that infringement certainly had to have occurred somewhere in this cloud of debris we're tossing around. So far at least one judge has bought into the B.S., to his own personal discredit.<BR/><BR/>-DMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15479871.post-58660898144366849622008-04-21T16:39:00.000-04:002008-04-21T16:39:00.000-04:00This is an amazingly clear, simple, and good answe...This is an amazingly clear, simple, and good answer on why discovery -- better known as the fishing expedition -- should not be allowed to proceed. The argument that, "We can prove that they're guilty if we're only allowed to dig deep enough into their family and hard drives (e-mails, resumes, recipes for Aunt Sally's marvelous sugar cookies) and private lives," has no place in any court in this land.<BR/><BR/>XK-EAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com